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Yahoo's Bartz's biggest mistake: playing through pain
November 30, 2010
The famously volatile Bartz defends her two-year tenure as Yahoo CEO to Fortune and says she's cut out the cuss words -- sometimes.
When Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz opens her mouth, it's likely something quote-worthy-though possibly not fit for print-is coming. Case in point: Last May, the outspoken chief executive told TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington to "f*** off" during a videotaped interview.
But on Tuesday evening, a somewhat more subdued Bartz took the stage at a Fortune Most Powerful Women dinner in Palo Alto, Calif. to discuss the state of Yahoo's (YHOO) turnaround, the company's identity, and how her relationship with the press has changed. No expletives included.
"Have I changed my interviewing style? Yes I have," Bartz told Patricia Sellers, editor at large at Fortune and co-chair of the Most Powerful Women Summit.
She was nevertheless unapologetic about her nearly two-year reign at Yahoo, which has suffered from flat revenue (some due to businesses it has consciously exited) and a stagnant stock that today trades for less than half the $33-a-share offer it turned down from Microsoft (MSFT) in 2008.
"We are in the middle of a big recession, a lot of companies are struggling with revenues," Bartz said in defense of Yahoo's performance.
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