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

Written on May 28, 2009 by admin

Filed Under: marketing

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.

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