Yesterday AutoCAD, Today the World
Carol Bartz, the former CEO of Autodesk, Inc., the creators of AutoCAD, the undisputed king of CAD platforms, has now become the CEO of Yahoo.
We at the Magnum Group have been working with AutoCAD for almost a decade now and are deeply specialized in it. We might even go so far as to say we are professionally married to AutoCAD.
Carol is therefore a “fellow citizen” of our country, and has now become an Internet colossus. We are proud of her and feel part of her new stature.
She stepped aside as CEO of Autodesk after leading it for 14 tumultuous years, during which she took its revenues from $285 million to $1.5 billion. She also won a personal battle against breast cancer.
Prior to her becoming CEO at Autodesk, that company was not on a firm growth path due to a lack of focus. Enter Ms. Bartz, a straight-talking, no-nonsense manager who would bombard subordinates with profanity-peppered questions if they didn’t get the job done.
The engineering drafting and architectural drafting world is complex and unyielding; nevertheless Carol made sure that most of it was blanketed in her superlative product. Bringing focus and profitability to Yahoo should be child’s play for her.
Go get’em, Carol, we’re rootin’ for ya!
Lucky
