NYT on Terry Semel of Yahoo!

prostoalex writes "With the recent CEO smackdown and Steve Jobs profiled by BusinessWeek, The New York Times talks about yet another high-tech CEO - Terry Semel of Yahoo! An outsider to the industry, Terry Semel currently leads the global company with the broadest reach. NYT looks into Yahoo!'s most valuable assets - technology produced by its employees, and covers many Yahoo! products, some of which, like Yahoo! Search, launched 2 years ago, trail only Google in the amount of users."

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I just finished reading Rules for Revolutionaries

[pHatidic]

The commute is too far. And there isn't any money to be made off this search thing. -Guy Kawasaki, when asked to interview for CEO of Yahoo! (Guy wrote Rules for Revolutionaries)

Barely touched a computer?

[digitaldc]

Worse, he was a Hollywood guy, and had barely touched a computer during the nearly two decades he oversaw Warner Brothers with Robert A. Daly.

This was because someone mistakenly told him that he could get a virus from his PC.

Reminiscing About the Yahoo! Of Yore

[anum]

First there was ARPAnet and it begat telnet and ftp. Then came Archie followed by Gopher (and it was good).

There was Simtel and WUarchive, the golden age of shareware, Apogee, id Software, Commander Keen and Duke Nukem, communication, dissemination and, of course, p0rn.

In the midst of this rose Mosaic and the Web was born. Web sites were created and they were good(ish).

But the net was a dark and lonely place with no one to guide the nubes and so pages of links sprung like manna from the hands of geeks.

The links were consolidated and organized into groups and the portal was born...Yahoo!!!