Edgar #koogle Kugel www.facebook.com/wochenschau presents: Tim Koogle
Interviewed by Marc Weber on December 16, 2013 in Mountain View, California, X7037.2014 © Computer History Museum Tim Koogle served as founding CEO of Yahoo!, guiding the company’s growth from $0 to well over $1 billion in revenue in six years, and from a start-up venture to a publicly traded and profitable company. A Virginia native, Koogle is the son of a machinist and mechanic. He put himself through college repairing cars and tractors. He attended Stanford for his doctorate in mechanical engineering, and founded his first business around preparing Porsche engines for the race track. After Stanford he founded a company that manufactured equipment for electronic manufacturing companies, and then joined Motorola, where he rose through the management ranks. He left to join Western Atlas, an automated data collection and communications systems manufacturer located in Seattle, Washington, that had (earlier) invented bar code symbols. He then ran its subsidiary Intermec corporation. From Intermec, Koogle was recruited by Yahoo!
