Yahoo CEO Wants “Boatloads of Money” from Microsoft, but Has that Ship Sailed?

Thursday, May 28th, 2009 by Andy Beal

Yahoo CEO Wants “Boatloads of Money” from Microsoft, but Has that Ship Sailed?

How would you define "boatloads?"

One dictionary suggests "an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude."

Well, thanks to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, we now have another definition of "boatloads"–its the precise amount of money it would take for her to sell Yahoo to Microsoft. Not a penny more, not a penny less!

Speaking during an interview at the D7 conference, Bartz explained her stance on selling Yahoo to the Redmond company:

“If there’s boatloads of money, and there’s the right technology, and the information we would have to have, then yeah….It’s that simple.”

There you go! It’s that simple!

Although, as we all know, it’s not that simple. Mostly because Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s not interested in sending out barges laden with cash. And, when you consider Microsoft is about to launch its new search product (likely today at D7), you could argue that Bartz has missed the boat–or her ship has sailed–when it comes to getting what she wants from the deal.

PS. You can read more from the Carol Bartz interview here. You’ll find she has quite the sense of humor.

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May 28th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

It is pretty typical for Yahoo to be a few months behind everything. They have continued to be irrelevant and if I were acting as the CEO I would try to sell off much of their dead weight and reorganize the company. They are in an industry that changes daily yet they still have the same mindset of the 90's.
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