The Internet giant next week will see its fourth chief executive in five years:
Jerry Yang: Web portal’s co-founder runs the company from its 1995 founding until 2008, when he stepped aside amid criticism from investors over the company’s flagging revenue and stock price.
Carol Bartz: Salty Silicon Valley veteran is hired in January 2009, boosting profits to $1.1 billion in 2011; fired in September amid declining stock.
Tim Morse: Yahoo’s chief financial officer is named interim CEO with the ouster of Bartz; returns to his old post.
Scott Thompson: Focused on technology and operations as PayPal’s president since 2008; Wedbush analyst Gil Luria credits him with building PayPal into a “large, fast-growing and predictable payments company”; Thompson came to PayPal from Visa.
Sources: news reports
