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" Yahoo! received around 100,000 unique visitors by the fall of 1994. In April 1995, Yahoo! received a $2 million investment from Sequoia Capital, Tim Koogle was hired as CEO, and Yang and Filo were each appointed "Chief Yahoo." Yahoo! received a second round of funding in the Fall of 1995 from Reuters and Softbank. It went public in April 1996 ...
Marissa Ann Mayer (/ ˈ m aɪ. ər /; born May 30, 1975) [4] is an American business executive and investor who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017. She was a long-time executive, usability leader and key spokesperson for Google (employee No. 20). [5] [6] [7] Mayer later co-founded Sunshine, a startup ...
David Filo (2014) – co-founder, chief Yahoo and director, Yahoo Inc.! Catherine J. Friedman; Eddy Hartenstein (2016) – non-executive chairman of the board of directors at Tronc; Richard Hill – chairman of the board of directors at Tessera Technologies; Vinny Lingham – co-founder & CEO at Civic; Marissa Mayer (2012) – CEO, Yahoo! Inc.
Bradley Kent Garlinghouse (born February 4, 1971) is an American business executive and the CEO of Ripple Labs, a financial technology company specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrency. Previously, he w as CEO and chairman of Hightail (formerly YouSendIt ) and earlier in his career, he held executive roles at AOL and Yahoo!
Decker was the president of Yahoo! from 2007-2009. Prior to that, she was the chief financial officer and executive vice-president of finance and administration of Yahoo from 2000 to 2007. [ 6 ] From 2006 to 2007 she was executive vice president of the Advertiser and Publisher Group in addition to her CFO responsibilities, [ 7 ] where she led a ...
James Lanzone (born January 20, 1971) is an American businessman and the CEO of Yahoo Inc. Previously, he was CEO of Tinder.He is also the former president and CEO of CBS Interactive, a top 10 Internet property that operated key websites including CBS All Access, CNET, GameSpot, CBS News, Metacritic, CBS Sports, 247 Sports, Scout Media, MaxPreps.com, TVGuide.com, Last.fm and many others.
Yahoo! hired Thompson as CEO in January 2012. [4] In early April 2012, Thompson announced and executed a plan to reduce Yahoo!'s 14,000 employees by 2,000, or 14% of the workforce. [5] Several executives left Yahoo! just before the layoffs began. [6] [7] On March 14, 2012, Yahoo! filed a patent lawsuit against Facebook over ten patents.
Bartz was born in Winona, Minnesota, the daughter of Shirley Ann (née Giese) and Virgil Julius Bartz.Her mother died when Carol was eight years old. A few years later, she and her younger brother, Jim, moved from Minnesota across the Mississippi River to the home of their grandmother, Alice, on a dairy farm near Alma, Wisconsin.