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Search every verified Carol Bartz interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a 2018 interview with Freakonomics Radio, Carol Bartz discussed the dynamics of gender and corporate leadership. She stated that some boards may appoint a female CEO as a "nefarious" way to have a scapegoat if the company fails, suggesting they might later claim "that failed because it was a female." When asked if this dynamic was part of Yahoo's decision to hire her, Bartz replied, "I'd like to think not, but um probably," while also noting she preferred to believe she was hired because the board thought she was good. She acknowledged that her track record at Autodesk was well known in the tech industry.
“I was the only one that knew anything about computers, I mean seriously.”
“The fact you had sales and marketing experience they felt was, I guess, because I had come from Sun I had had so much experience.”
“We were still DOS based, and they were convinced that that's what engineers wanted.”
“I woke up one morning and said to myself, I thought you slid into irrelevance.”
“We had a big piece of Pixar, John had bought this big piece of Pixar.”
“I programmed my first computer in 1968 and I've done the tech industry, enjoyed it, but when I saw this opportunity I said this is the new world here and it's like being back in tech 20 years ago — so much growth potential, so many ways to change people's lives.”
“I agree that CBD is a very, very important part of this industry; however, I also believe because I'm a user — my knees, bad knees — that the combination of THC and CBD is very good, it's much better than just pure CBD.”
“As it's legalized in other states people will have the opportunity to understand how important it is to have that combination and that's what Kleva does — it looks at the opportunities for its customers and delivers the best product, starting from the plant; they grow the plants so it's sort of from seed to sale.”
“You're certainly correct about the red tape and high taxes ... the tests themselves are important and Kleva is on top of that — they want to be the most trusted brand because they take care of their product and the customer knows what they're getting.”
“Taxes in San Jose, for instance — by the time you add up local taxes, state taxes and spending taxes — it's thirty seven and a half percent, so if you have a fifty dollar product all of a sudden it's sixty‑seven dollars; that is not the way to enhance a new market to come to life by over regulating and over taxing.”
“California is the only state where you've seen legalized recreational cannabis and you've seen black market sales actually go up — it is the regulations because many smaller cannabis growers couldn't afford the compliance costs, so they went back underground and their customers followed them.”
“I don't think we're that close to federal legalization — there's still too many 'boogie men' out there that assume bad things will happen if marijuana is legalized.”
“Those states — California being the largest marijuana potential market — and frankly it's bigger in Canada; it's bigger than anything in the United States, so we're going to learn a lot here that hopefully will help other people decide to legalize.”
“I programmed my first computer in 1968 and I've done the tech industry... but when I saw this opportunity I said this is the new world here and it's like being back in tech 20 years ago — like so much growth potential, so many ways to change people's lives.”
“Because I'm a user — my knees, bad knees — the combination of THC and CBD is very good; it's much better than just pure CBD.”
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Interviewed by Doug Fairbairn on 2021-10-13 in Mountain View, CA © Computer History Museum In a wide-ranging interview, Carol Bartz covers her very unusual career, from a quite dysfunctional beginning, through working her way through college and various initial jobs to entering the computer industry. Speaking her mind, even when it upset executives, she was able to get increasingly responsible marketing and then executive positions. She was an early woman Chair of a computer company (Sun Microsystems) and then the CEO of Autodesk. She redirected the company, changing it from one that was eng…
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CBHS welcomed Silicon Valley icon, Carol Bartz, Lead Director Cisco, former CEO AutoDesk and Yahoo! in the latest edition of the FedEx Speaker Series on October 11. Bartz and her husband, Bill Marr ‘64, are CBHS benefactors and the namesake for the Marr Department of Business and Economics at Christian Brothers High School. Bartz was joined on stage with CBHS parent, Lauren McHugh Robinson, President of Huey’s Restaurants.
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2016 Global Silicon Valley Hall of Fame Celebration September 14, 2016 GSV Pioneer Summit @ GSVlabs 2016 Hall of Fame ...
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