Manager Job

Chad Meredith Hurley (1977) is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0’s “50 People Who Matter Now” list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google.

Hurley worked in eBay’s PayPal division—one of his tasks involved designing the original PayPal logo— before starting YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.

Hurley is a user interface expert and was primarily responsible for the tagging and video sharing aspects of YouTube.

Early years

Chad, the middle child of Don and JoAnn Hurley, grew up near Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. He has two siblings – an older sister (Heather) and a younger brother (Brent). Since childhood, Chad showed interest in the arts and became interested in computers and electronic media during high school.

He graduated from Twin Valley High School, Elverson in 1995 and went on to receive his B.A. in Fine Art from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He was a stand-out runner for Twin Valley High School’s vaunted Cross Country program, which won two of its numerous PIAA State titles with him as a member in 1992 and 1994. He was also member of the Technology Student Association during high school. Read the rest of this entry »

Mary Kay Ash: Business woman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

Famous for: Creating a cosmetics empire and empowering other women to succeed

Kay Ash details: Born – May 12, 1915 Texas, USA Died – 2001

Mary Kay Ash is a great example of a successful manager. She founded the cosmetics empire that helped to empower and inspire thousands of women around the world. She started Mary Kay Cosmetics after becoming frustrated by the favoritism in the workplaces she worked, where men were given priority over women in regards to being promoted. Ash was determined to offer career opportunities and even manager jobs in her company to any woman who had the energy and creativity required to sell Mary Kay cosmetics. Her worldwide brand is now established in more than 30 countries and has a sales force of more than one million.

A job of a manager is far from easy and it is hard to point the finger at what is the crucial detail, which makes a company a success. Kay’s business techniques were unconventional and attracted much attention. Read the rest of this entry »

Carol A. Bartz (born August 29, 1948, in Winona, Minnesota) is the current CEO of Yahoo! and was previously Chairman, President, and CEO at Autodesk, the world’s fourth largest PC software company from 1992 until 2009. Autodesk net revenue increased from $285 million to more than $534 million during her tenure.

Career

After college, Bartz worked at 3M, but left after a request to transfer to the headquarters was denied, being told that “women don’t do these jobs”. She moved on to the computer industry, including stints at Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems.

Bartz became CEO of Autodesk in 1992. According to Forbes, “Since 1992, Bartz, 56, has transformed Autodesk from an aimless maker of PC software into a leader of computer-aided design software, targeting architects and builders.” She is credited with instituting and promoting Autodesk’s “3F” or “fail fast-forward” concept — the idea that you engineer a company to fail in certain missions, to be resilient to failure, and to respond to it by overcoming quickly. She stepped down as CEO on May 1, 2006 and became the executive chairman of the board. Carl Bass replaced her as CEO. Read the rest of this entry »

Howard Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman, and entrepreneur best known as the chairman and CEO of Starbucks and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, in 1998 with Dan Levitan.

Early years

Schultz grew up in a subsidized public housing project (Bay View Houses) in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York. He attended Canarsie High School and is the eldest of three children. He is of English descent. He has a sister, Ronnie (b. 1956) and a brother Michael (b. 1961), who both live in New York. His mother lives in New Jersey and his father, of whom he often speaks in interviews, has passed away. He is a father of two children and currently lives in Seattle with his wife. He owns an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a house in East Hampton, N.Y. .

Schultz attended Northern Michigan University on a football scholarship. In 1975, he became the first of his family to graduate from college when he earned his bachelor’s degree in the arts and sciences. He is a member of the Theta Iota chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon.

Career

In 1982, he joined Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle as the Director of Marketing. After a business trip to Milan, Italy, he tried to persuade the owners (including Jerry Baldwin) to offer traditional espresso beverages in addition to the whole bean coffee, leaf teas and spices they had long offered. After a successful pilot of the cafe concept, the owners refused to roll it out company-wide and Howard Schultz started his own coffee shop named Il Giornale in 1985. Two years later, the original Starbucks management decided to focus on Peet’s Coffee & Tea and sold its Starbucks retail unit to Schultz and Il Giornale. Read the rest of this entry »