The cookie crumbles to bits for Yahoo's co-founder and former CEO - the company has paid Jerry Yang only $1 for all the work he did last year.
The breakdown of Yahoo's top-paid executives in 2008 served as a reminder of the current shake-up at the company as its new leader, Carol Bartz, tries to end a three-year slump that has devastated Yahoo's stock price.
When Yang stepped down as CEO in January, Yahoo President Susan Decker left the company rather than work for the woman who beat her out for the top job. Blake Jorgensen, Yahoo's chief financial officer, also plans to leave as soon as Bartz can find his successor.
Even more employees will be leaving in the next few weeks as Bartz carries out her plan to lay off nearly 700 people, or about 5 percent Yahoo's work force.
Yang, 40, has settled for a token salary for years because he has gotten rich off of Yahoo's stock since he started the Web site with fellow Stanford University graduate student David Filo in 1994.
But like his fellow shareholders, Yang has suffered huge losses on paper as Yahoo shares lost nearly half their value last year. The plunge left Yang's 3.9 percent stake worth about $600 million less at the end of 2008.
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