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Terry Semel

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Entrepreneur

The Resume

    (February 24, 1943- )
    CEO of Yahoo! (March 2001- )
    CEO of Warner Bros and Warner Music Group (1994-99)
    Twenty-four years with Warner Brothers (1975-99), including positions as VP, COO, Vice Chairman and Co-CEO
    Produced 'China Beach,' 'Murphy Brown,' 'Friends' and 'ER'

Why he might be annoying:

    He quit his job in accounting after only a year or two.
    He promised a plan to turn Yahoo back into a profitable company, but was unable to reveal his plan for two months after his promised release date.
    He reduced Yahoo! from 40 businesses to just six.
    He had Yahoo! pay $436 million to acquire HotJobs.com.
    He replaced half of Yahoo's sales force and top management.
    He made approximately $50 million when Time merged with Warner Communications forming Time-Warner (1989).
    He had major flops with 'Wild Wild West,' 'Batman and Robin,' 'The Avengers' and 'Lethal Weapon 4.'
    He invited and honored presidential candidate George W. Bush to his home in hopes of wrangling an ambassadorship out of it.
    Bob Daly said of him: 'If they asked him 20 questions, he'd ask 30.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He turned Yahoo into a profitable company after seven quarters of losses.
    Former partner Bob Daly said: 'He got them straightened out and headed in the right direction.'
    He helped build Warner Brothers into an $11 billion company.
    He rose to CEO when Bob Daly promoted him to co-CEO of Warner Brothers (1994).
    He earned an accounting degree at Long Island University (1964) and his MBA at City College (1967).
    His movies 'Chariots of Fire,' 'Driving Miss Daisy' and 'Unforgiven' won Oscars.
    Along with partner Bob Daly, he became the second to be immortalized in the footprints of Mann's Theater (September, 1999).
    His annual salary is in excess of $20 million and he is worth well over $100 million.
    He and his partner Bob Daly had eighteen straight profitable years at Warner, growing $1 billion to #11 billion in annual revenues.
    He ranked #4 (1995), #5 (1996), #5 (1997), #8 (1998) and #9 (1999) in Premiere Magazines Power List.
    He ranked #19 (1991), #13 (1992), #8 (1996) and #12 (1997) in Entertainment Weekly's Power List.

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 69 Votes: 56.52% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 19 Votes: 63.16% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 27 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 74 Votes: 72.97% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 106 Votes: 65.09% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 190 Votes: 67.89% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 253 Votes: 63.24% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 411 Votes: 68.13% Annoying