A $22,500 donation.

Doug J., our team captain, was the one who rallied 45 yahoos to do this crazy thing. A few days ago, he sent an email to Carol Bartz, Yahoo's CEO as well as the CFO, CTO and a few other executives to share what it is that we are doing, and hopefully, get some support.

Yesterday, Carol donated $22,500 to the team.

She said, "You guys are AMAZING!!! Please let us know how it goes. I'm good for $500 per Yahoo, so count me in for $22,500. Can't wait to hear how it goes. All the best, Carol." The money has already by donated and is on our team page. I hope it's ok that I am quoting her, but the message is so wonderful and generous that I had to share.


Speechless.

A note about Carol: She is a lean mean CEO-ing machine, having raised our stock price significantly already. When Kara Swisher, WSJ writer on "All Things Digital," alluded to Carol that she was too old to run an internet company (at 61 years old and recently retired from running Autocad), Carol leaned in to Kara and in the lightest way said "Fuck you." What an amazing lady.