I don't know much about Bartz but I've always been impressed with Autodesk, or rather the products 3DMax, Maya and the pro video tools.
Max is the first product I'd heard of where the developers were not tied to an office, they were all over and met once a year. When Autodesk bought Maya many thought it would be merger slash and burn but both 3D products are important in the market and have ongoing impressive development.
this is really the best they can come up with? I know dont judge a book by its cover, but i'm just not seeing it:
- No experience with an advertising startup
- Old school software background
- Too chummy with existing problem team of decker + yang
- Not sure where the innovation will come from here
Maybe this is what Yahoo! needs, but I just see even more bureaucracy developing. They pissed joshu off enough that he regretted selling to them and went to Google. Do you understand how hard it is to piss someone off after you've given them 15+ million dollars?
I'd much rather have MSFT in control of yahoo. Zero doubt about it.
how does that comment warrant downvoting -3 points? It's insightful criticism with some logic behind it. I'm fine with downvoting, but at least give me some feedback with a good argument.
I Agree, you made a fair point and while it may not be data studded it wasn't trolling either.
I do disagree though. I don't know the woman, but i listened to a lecture she gave via the STVP Podcast series. She seemed really bright and if I remember correctly didn't have a computer graphic background before joining AutoDesk.
It is easy to lambast "pointy haired bosses" but it seems like Yahoo is a classic case of a company needing strategic realignment. They have amazing traffic spread over dozens of business units. Her task is to rationalize those, set a course and turn around a massive company. Her success at AutoDesk would suggest she will be able to hire the right technical leaders to join her team.
There's no argument to refute and no data to back it up. You didn't even know who Carol Bartz was an hour ago.
Maybe I'm overreacting, but I see a lot of commenting like this on HN lately. People who comment to feel superior rather than to enlighten others. I realize that Yahoo's doing poorly these days, and management has made a string of blunders. But believe it or not, that doesn't mean that everyone's half-assed opinion about what Yahoo should do is worth reading.
I've known who Carol is for a while. She's awesome in her field. If you told me she was taking over Adobe or even MSFT, which has some software DNA, I'd be excited. She's grown a company as well with autodesk to new heights. The facts are pretty clear, but they are there to support my opinion.
I can agree, hacker news has a lot of people trying to feel superior with a snarky comment rather than enlighten. I was not trying to be one of those people.
I hope she's able to reinvigorate yahoo, but speaking from general ignorance about the person (other than her published resume) this seems like a very conventional hire, just like using heidrick was conventional, and just like most every yahoo product is currently conventional. nothing wrong with that, just doesn't strike me as the kick-start, explosive action yahoo's been trying to convince everyone it's been in the process of making to turn itself around.
I dunno about anyone else, but to me...this doesn't look like a person who can fix Yahoo. Are we really supposed to believe that this is the BEST person on the entire planet to run Yahoo?
Her only quality it seems, is that she looks hot for a 60 year old
Max is the first product I'd heard of where the developers were not tied to an office, they were all over and met once a year. When Autodesk bought Maya many thought it would be merger slash and burn but both 3D products are important in the market and have ongoing impressive development.