Yahoo hired Bartz, 60, as its new CEO this week. Yahoo is paying a $1 million salary to new CEO Carol Bartz and awarding her at least $18 million more in cash and stock during her first year in the job. Bartz, who grew up on a farm near Alma, Wisconsin, received a BA in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1971.
In her 14 years at AutoDesk, the company grew from a $200 million play to a $1.4 billion leader, and she developed a reputation as a tough leader with a penchant for salty language.
Bartz had been leading the services unit of Sun Microsystems before retiring from the job when she was recruited to be CEO of AutoDesk in 1992. What she found was the geek's equivalent of Romper Room. Employees routinely blew off project deadlines. There were no performance reviews. At Autodesk, part of her mandate was spiffing up products that were viewed by some as commodities and improving their profit margins, observes Ray Rothrock, a partner at venture capital outfit Venrock who worked under Bartz when she was an executive at Sun Microsystems.
J V Godwin
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