I agree with the "self-promoter" characterization (and support the other reply that most CEOs of such companies are so). However, the $7m figure for the holiday party is incorrect. I was at Yahoo then, and we were shown some numbers about the true cost. I was still angry that they spent even a cent on a party in December, then laid off a lot of people in February, cut people working on open source projects, and weren't funding any conference trips even at that point. All of those are more important to me than parties, but the Y! holiday party was well loved by many people there.