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sandieman on May 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yahoo CEO might have lied about having CS degree

Its a sign of poor character. Lying on your resume is inexcusable for CEO of any public company.

excuse-me on May 3, 2012 [–]

Well lying about something that can be so easily checked is certainly silly - but lying convincingly to customers shareholders, regulators and investors is surely the whole point of being a CEO?

Otherwise we would just let the engineers run the company!

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