Talk:Terry Semel/Archives/2015

What Career Section?
Agree with earlier postings below. This guy, born in 1943, had no career prior to 2001? That's interesting, because he was a noted guest at Stanley Kubrick's 1999 funeral. The Career section of this biography MUST be completed, or a major warning should appear. Here are copyrighted and so not-usable, no-doubt Semel-generated PR bios:

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=673187&ticker=YHOO Mr. Terry S. Semel served as a Senior Advisor of RRE Ventures LLC. Mr. Semel served as the Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo! Inc. from 2001 to 2007 and was responsible for increasing the company's revenue nearly nine-fold as well as creating $30 billion in shareholder value during his tenure. Mr. Semel also helped to build its industry-leading audience from 170 million users in 2001 to more than 500 million users in 2007, and significantly expanded its strong and talented employee base. Prior to Yahoo! Inc., he spent 24 years at Warner Bros., most noted for his role as Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer where Mr. Semel and his partner, Robert Daly, helped build Warner Bros. into one of the world's largest and most creative media and entertainment enterprises. He was Chairman of the Board and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Warner Bros. Division of Time Warner Entertainment LP ('Warner Brothers'), Los Angeles, from March 1994 to October 1999 and of Warner Music Group, Los Angeles, from November 1995 to October 1999. For more than ten years prior to that, he served as the President of Warner Brothers or its predecessor, Warner Bros. Inc. Prior to Warner Bros., he was in charge of Walt Disney's Theatrical Distribution division and previously in charge of CBS' Theatrical Distribution division. Mr. Semel served as the Chairman at Yahoo! Inc. from since 2001 to June 2007. He has been a Director of SnagFilms Inc. He served on the Board of Directors of Ralph Lauren Corporation (Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation) since September 1997. He served as a Director of Revlon, Inc. since June 1996. Mr. Semel serves on the Board of Directors of the Guggenheim Museum, the Paley Center for Media, Emerson College, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2005, he was granted the UCLA Medal, which is the highest honor bestowed by the university, and the Yale Legends in Leadership Award. Mr. Semel holds a B.Sc. from Long Island University and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Emerson.

http://berggruen.org/people/terry-s-semel Prior to Yahoo! Inc., he spent 24 years at Warner Bros., most noted for his role as Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer where Mr. Semel and his partner, Robert Daly, helped build Warner Bros. into one of the world's largest and most creative media and entertainment enterprises. Mr. Semel is credited with building Warner Bros. from a single revenue source generating less than $1 billion to nearly $11 billion total revenues from multiple, diverse businesses in 50 countries. Prior to Warner Bros., he was in charge of Walt Disney's Theatrical Distribution division and previously in charge of CBS' Theatrical Distribution division.

Dstlascaux (talk) 20:16, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

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text from another TERY SEMEL page, should be incorporated here:

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer YAHOO!'''

Terry S. Semel is the chairman and chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc, a leading global Internet company. Semel is focused on providing the strategy and vision that will allow Yahoo! to attain its goal to be Internet's leading global consumer and business services company. A globally-respected media and entertainment executive, Semel was named Yahoo!'s chairman and CEO in May 2001, after receiving a Bonus of Equity Securities valued over $110,000,000.00 on April 16, 2001.

Previously, Semel spent 24 years at Warner Bros., most noted for his role as chairman and co-chief executive officer where he and his partner, Robert Daly, helped build Warner Bros. into one of the world's largest and most creative media and entertainment enterprises. Like Yahoo!, Warner Bros. reaches billions of worldwide consumers through its vast stable of properties. Semel is credited with building Warner Bros. from a single revenue source generating less than $1 billion to nearly $11 billion total revenues from multiple, diverse businesses in 50 countries.

Prior to Warner Bros., Semel was in charge of Walt Disney's Theatrical Distribution division and previously in charge of CBS' Theatrical Distribution division. Semel is currently on the Board of Directors of Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Television and Radio.

In 2005, Semel was granted the UCLA Medal, which is the highest honor bestowed by the university, and the Yale Legends in Leadership Award.

Semel holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Long Island University and an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Emerson.

Failure of moral spine
Yes, the above posting seems sweet, indeed quite lovely. But let us not pretend things are different from what they actually are. If it comes to a real issue, Terry Semel seems without moral spine. His focus appears to be on whatever is most immediately profitable and expedient, even if it deviously perverts Yahoo ultimately into something odious and unacceptable to basic human decency.

Yahoo does not even offer a communication channel if you disagree with the way they comport themselves.

Right now, minute by minute, decent and honorable dissidents rot in jail because of Terry Semel. Let Terry Semel speak for himself. If his failure in moral courage continues then may Yahoo fail miserably with him. Geronimo20 12:16, 31 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Money conquers all. Let us not forget that. In a couple years he and his wife will donate millions to many organizations and all will be forgiven by the right people at the right places. That's how it works. 160.83.32.14 22:21, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Billionaire?
Is Semel worth over 1 billion dollars? Does Semel belong in Category:American billionaires? If somebody finds out that he does and sees this, please add this category. Thanks.

POV text
I reverted CarlosRodriguez's edit again because of POV text like this: "In June 2007, after shareholders expressed their disgust at Semel's exorbitant pay and mediocre performance, the disgraced Semel was forced out of his position at Yahoo." He also didn't cite a source that Semel was "forced out". Based on the section just above this one ("Bleeding?") I'm guessing that he has an agenda of some sort. Pfalstad 14:58, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Nope, no agenda from me :)  Just writing articles.   CarlosRodriguez 03:33, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

What happened to the Career section?
At some point many edits ago it seems to have been blanked/ --216.75.93.110 17:42, 27 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Looks like it was empty when it was first added. Pfalstad 18:12, 27 June 2007 (UTC)