Carol’s big debut at D7

Posted May 27th, 2009 at 2:20 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

 9 Comments / Filed in: Conferences/Events, Video

Carol Bartz made her first big appearance today at the seventh annual D: All Things Digital conference. As could’ve been predicted, this CEO famed for salty one-liners made quite an impression. Carol was asked about why she came to Yahoo!, what is Yahoo!, what’s most important to us, the economy, whether she plans to hire a #2, her management style, what’s going on with Microsoft, Google, whether she agrees with the Peanut Butter manifesto, and plenty more. The responses were candid, direct, and often quite quotable (for example, “Nine women cannot make a baby in one month. You need time and process.”).

The AllThingsD.com site has a liveblog recap of Carol’s interview. You might also head to the Twitterverse for a taste of how she was received. Some of our favorite tweets:

• Chris Anderson (@TEDchris): Yahoo’s new CEO Carol Bartz knocking ‘em dead at D7. Smart, focused, engaging, funny, persuasive. Memo to self: buy YHOO?
• Peter Kafka (@pkafka): I think this may be Carol Bartz’ first big public appearance since coming to Yahoo. IMHO she’s crushing it.
• Larry Magid (@LarryMagid): Yahoo’s Carol Bartz is one of the funniest speakers ever at D.
• Katie Boehret (@kabster728): Our stage manager says: I wanna see the sitcom w/these two (referring to @karaswisher and Carol Bartz, Yahoo CEO).

(UPDATE: The folks at D have taken down Carol’s video to replace it “with one that contains 100 percent more profanity. It’ll be up soon–we apologize for the inconvenience.” We’ll get it up when the link is available.)
UPDATE #2: And it’s back!

Here’s the video — uncensored:

Nicki Dugan
Blog Editor

Photos by Asa Mathat, AllThingsD.com

Tagged: carol bartz, conference, Video

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9 Comments Add your own

Sundar | May 27th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

Video not working..can you please check the source?

Nicki Dugan | May 27th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

@Sundar – Yeah, see our update. The AllThingsD folks have removed the video to replace it with something saltier. We’re still waiting for the new link.

=bg= | May 27th, 2009 at 7:32 pm

Great interview. CB shakes up the status quo. Does she have a pair of those purple Pony sneakers?

gag | May 27th, 2009 at 8:22 pm

Interesting interview. Microsoft has been dominant for some time now, it is time for companies like Yahoo! and Google combo to shine. If your here to work towards keeping companies like Microsoft at bay i wish you well and success. Internet is getting complex, ask me anything anytime, if i can help i would surely help Yahoo!, cya.

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Chris | May 29th, 2009 at 10:03 am

Did Carol really say “Fu.. You” to Kara Swisher? Wow, Thousands of us would love to have had that chance over the past two years.

Thanks Carol!!

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