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Timothy Andrew Koogle (born July 5, 1951) is an American executive who served as the first CEO and president of web company Yahoo! between 1995 and 2001. He served as the company's chairman from 1999 to 2003.
- First CEO of Yahoo!
- Yahoo!
- 1990s–present
- Repairing Cars as Proud Son
- Founding A Company and Visualizing The Internet
- Aggressively Advertising Yahoo!
- Koogle's Accomplishments
- Endless Work
- Stepping Down as Top Yahoo!
- Sources For Further Information
While growing up, Koogle was a race car enthusiast who liked to rebuild engines and aspired to become an engineer. In fact, when Koogle was five years old his father—who was a machinist and mechanic—began to teach him about repairing cars. Known for his industriousness, even before the age of 10, he sold gardening services to neighbors and later in...
Koogle started his own company after graduation, making equipment for electronic manufacturing companies. He later sold the company to Chicago-based Motorola. After completing the sale, he began working for Motorola in 1983, spending nine years employed in the company's operations and corporate venture capital groups, where he attained a number of ...
Jeffrey Mallett, as Yahoo!'s chief operating officer, and Koogle, as its CEO, engineered an amazing campaign to make Yahoo! the most famous brand on the Internet. Mallett concentrated on the day-to-day operations of the company, while Koogle focused on developing large-scale partnerships and deciding where all revenues would come from. Critical in ...
Koogle accomplished his feat with Yahoo! by keeping tight control on expenses and avoiding the capital losses that were so common with most fledgling Internet companies. Perhaps the most important asset in Koogle's arsenal was the power of Yahoo!'s brand name. But equally important was its strong asset base of hundreds of millions of dollars. Durin...
By the late 1990s competition was fierce for Yahoo! as many established brick-and-mortar businesses, such as NBC/General Electric, Disney, Time Warner, and Microsoft sought to establish their presence on the Web. Their number-one enemy was the upstart but mighty Yahoo! With this in mind, Koogle and his troops worked tirelessly to make sure that Yah...
By 2000 the dot-com implosion was in full swing as the major stock market indexes reversed themselves after the long 1990s bull market, in which stock prices continually rose in value, came to an end. Koogle had a $295,000 salary and Yahoo! shares worth $365 million, but Yahoo! was no longer immune to the troubles that were plaguing other Internet ...
Himelstein, Linda, with Heather Green, Richard Siklos, and Catherine Yang, "Yahoo! the Company, the Strategy, the Stock Today, It's the Lord of the Web. But Powerful Rivals Are Moving in Fast. Can Yahoo! Keep Clicking?" BusinessWeek, September 7, 1998, p. 66. Swisher, Kara, "The Two Grown-Ups behind Yahoo!'s Surge," Wall Street Journal, April 10, 1...
Koogle: You want the full, full, name, Timothy Andrew Koogle? There you go. Or Tim Koogle, most people call me, or TK. You want where I'm from? I was born in 1951. I was born in Alexandria, Virginia on the East Coast. Weber: And please tell me about your family. Koogle: My mother and father-- so my mother and father were both born in Maryland ...
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Dec 16, 2013 · Tim Koogle was the founding CEO of Yahoo!, who led the company from a startup to a billion-dollar public company. He also invested in and scaled several early stage private companies in technology and consumer products.
Aug 23, 1999 · Profile of Yahoo, rapidly growing Internet search engine and portal; cites chief executive Timothy A Koogle's stress on speed and his insistence that Yahoo stay independent; he comments, interview ...
Apr 7, 2005 · Timothy Koogle, who left Yahoo in 2001, was accused of justifying crimes against humanity by allowing Nazi objects on Yahoo auction site. A Paris appeals court dismissed the charges in 2005, ruling that U.S. courts cannot override foreign orders.
Apr 7, 2005 · Yahoo's former chief executive, Timothy Koogle, was cleared Wednesday by the Paris Court of Appeal of allegations by civil rights groups that one of the company's Web sites illegally linked to an ...
