Carol Ann Bartz (born August 29, 1948) is the President and CEO of Yahoo!, the internet services company which operates the second most visited website in the world. She was previously Chairman, President, and CEO at Autodesk, the world's largest producer of design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction.
Bartz was born in Winona, Minnesota. Her mother, Shirley Bartz, died when Carol was eight years old. A few year...
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Carol Ann Bartz (born August 29, 1948) is the President and CEO of Yahoo!, the internet services company which operates the second most visited website in the world. She was previously Chairman, President, and CEO at Autodesk, the world's largest producer of design software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction.
Bartz was born in Winona, Minnesota. Her mother, Shirley Bartz, died when Carol was eight years old. A few years later, she and her younger brother Jim moved from Minnesota to the home of their grandmother, Alice Schwartz, on a dairy farm near Alma, Wisconsin.
In high school, Bartz did well in mathematics, and was also homecoming queen. She began college at William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri, and subsequently transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she received a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1971. While in college, she supported herself as a cocktail waitress.
In 1976, Bartz went to work at the manufacturing...
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