Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The Past Is Prologue: Carol Bartz and Autodesk in 1992=Yahoo Now
Here is a story, in full, by the always terrific G. Pascal Zachary, which appeared in The Wall Street Journal in 1992, about the newly hired CEO Carol Bartz and the “theocracy of hackers” at then-wacky Autodesk.
Three guesses about who eventually won that battle, and the first two don’t count.
Fast-forward to 2008, with Bartz now taking up the difficult reins of Yahoo, which is a little more behaved than Autodesk was then, but still a handful.
Déjà vu anyone?
