Yahoo CEO to COO: You're Fired
January 16, 2014 at 12:57 PM EST
Marissa Mayer, Chief Executive Officer at Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO ) fired the company's second-in-command and Chief Operating Officer, Henrique de Castro. De Castro was Mayer's first major hire when she joined the company, tempting him with a four year, $62 million salary to join her in an exodus from Google