Marissa Mayer just had her first major mistake as Yahoo CEO. She was forced to oust Henrique de Castro, her hand-picked, and highly compensated COO after just 15 months on the job. From the moment De Castro was hired, people warned that he was a big mistake for Yahoo. Yet, […]
Mayer's first hire.
With $60m in his bank account.
[credit provider=”All Things D” url=”http://allthingsd.com/video/?catname=d10″] Yahoo is in the middle of a desperate turnaround.Usage of Yahoo products has stalled, and the company is about to get crushed by the mobile computing revolution unless it makes something wonderful.
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New Yahoo COO and ad boss Henrique De Castro started this week. He used to work at Google.
[credit provider=”Google”] Ex-Google executive Henrique De Castro is Yahoo’s new COO.Yahoo hired him to fix its relationship with Madison Avenue, and because he is given credit by many for building Google’s display advertising business and finally monetizing YouTube.
[credit provider=”All Things D” url=”http://allthingsd.com/video/?catname=d10″] Last week, new Yahoo CEO made her first huge hire.She poached ad executive Henrique De Castro from Google to be Yahoo’s COO.
[credit provider=”Flickr/Eirikso” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/eirikso/3264932070/sizes/z/in/photostream/”] Now that Yahoo’s Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barrett is out, the company is going to have a big hole in its operations for the next month.Marissa Mayer is replacing Barrett with Henrique De Castro, but because he’s disentangling himself from Google, De Castro will not start at […]
[credit provider=”earcos” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/earcos/4172619609/sizes/o/in/photostream/”] Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer made a big hire yesterday, bringing in her former Google colleague Henrique De Castro as COO.De Castro doesn’t come cheap. Mayer and Yahoo had to agree to pay him $62 million over four years to get him to leave Google, where De Castro was […]
[credit provider=”Google”] As Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer is spending a massive amount to pry her former colleague, Henrique de Castro, away from Google and install him as COO.According to our reading of de Castro’s employment letter, which Yahoo just filed with the SEC, the total over four years comes to […]
[credit provider=”All Things D” url=”http://allthingsd.com/video/?catname=d10″] Marissa Mayer has hired top Googler sales executive Henrique de Castro as her COO, Yahoo just confirmed.Mayer made the announcement as she apparently wrapped up a brief maternity leave, on her “first full day back in the office,” she wrote on Twitter.