Fortune:
On Tuesday, Bartz was in New York, to speak at Citigroup’s (C) technology conference the next day, when she was supposed to call Bostock at 6 p.m. “I called him at 6:06,” she recalls. When he got on the line, she says, he started reading a lawyer’s prepared statement to dismiss her.
“I said, ‘Roy, I think that’s a script,'” adding, “‘Why don’t you have the balls to tell me yourself?'”
Ousted Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz isn’t one to mince words – she famously told recently-fired TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to f*** off, at his own conference.
Yeah, but Arrington always deserves that…
Yeah, but Arrington always deserves that…
Her reign may have included some awful decisions, but it’s clear she wasn’t Yahoo’s biggest problem.
I like this woman.
I like this woman.
Strength of character – tell someone ‘fuck off’ to their face and stay seated and ready to continue normal conversation.
Lack of character – fire your CEO over the phone in another city while reading from a script.
Actually the whole ‘script’ may have been for legal reasons. He needed to say certain things to CYA from the lawyer’s point of view so to make sure the guy didn’t F it up, they wrote it out.