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...That question first came to the fore during the tenure of Terry Semel, a former film executive who ran the company after the dotcom bust and pushed it heavily into online media....
...Spring 2001: As Yahoo is hit by the dotcom bust, chief executive Tim Koogle, who had led the company since 1995, is replaced by Warner Brothers executive Terry Semel....
...The closest it came was in the mid-2000s, when Terry Semel, one of its parade of chief executives, acquired Inktomi, AltaVista and Overture in a failed attempt to compete with Google’s algorithms....
...Recode’s parent company, Revere Digital, launched as a spinout from the Wall Street Journal at the beginning of last year, with backing from NBCUniversal and Windsor Media, former Yahoo chief Terry Semel...
...This article has been amended to reflect the fact that Terry Semel co-founded Windsor Media after working at Warner Brothers, not before...
...Terry Semel, the former Hollywood executive who ran it after the dotcom crash, pushed Yahoo towards becoming a fully fledged media company....
...Marc Andreessen, the Facebook board member, and Terry Semel, the former chief executive of Yahoo, are investors in Raine’s fund, as are Jay and Miky Lee, from the family that started Samsung....
...Stanley Kubrick was championed by Warner Bros, in particular Bob Daly and Terry Semel, the two men who ran the studio in the 1980s and 1990s....
...Terry Semel, the former Yahoo chief executive, expressed interest in IMG when Forstmann Little considered selling the agency five years ago and is said to be prepared to bid this time....
...WME also owns part of Raine, a boutique bank that counts Facebook’s Sean Parker, Terry Semel, the former Yahoo chief executive, and Google’s Eric Schmidt as investors....
...Laura Tyson, Bill Clinton’s former economic adviser, is a member, as is Terry Semel, the former chief executive of Yahoo, and Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco....
...Today Terry Semel, former chief executive of both Warner Brothers and Yahoo, is dining at another table, and I spot Jeff Berg, one of the town’s top talent agents, deep in conversation with film producer...
...Supporters of this view will note that Mr Yang was still fighting for the company he created, long after professional managers (and former chief executives) Terry Semel and Carol Bartz had departed....
...It is on course to raise $500m to finance acquisitions in media, sports and entertainment, with investors including Terry Semel, former chief executive of Yahoo, Jay and Miky Lee, from the family that started...
...Jerry Yang, one of the co-founders of Yahoo, returned as chief executive after stepping back to become “Chief Yahoo” and handing over power to Terry Semel....
...Semel, two years ago....
...And look at it this way: Terry Semel made nearly $72m in 2006, making him the highest-paid executive in the S&P 500 and drawing angry protests from shareholders....
...After all the personal criticism he has taken in his 17 months as CEO, it’s worth remembering the reception Jerry Yang got when he was picked by Yahoo’s board to replace Terry Semel....
...His replacement by Terry Semel, a former Warner Bros executive, in 2001 saw Yahoo take a disastrous turn as it focused on entertainment, according to Mr Weiner....
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...It stood at $28 when he took over from Terry Semel in June 2007 and fell to just over $10 on Monday, when the announcement came. Along the way, he spurned a $31-a-share takeover offer from Microsoft....
...It’s probably a bit churlish to point this out, but the stock is now within 50 cents of where it stood when Terry Semel took over in the depths of the 2001 slump....
...That was something that the previous outsider to be appointed chief executive – Terry Semel – possessed in abundance, but Yahoo is seen to have fallen behind operationally during his tenure as it lost market...
...Terry Semel, Yahoo chief executive at the time, said it would add “depth and breadth” to the group’s consumer services....
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