Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro has been holding a globals sales conference in Las Vegas this week, bringing together the large group of employees at the Silicon Valley Internet giant who are in charge of a big chunk of its revenue. While it’s a lot of talking by top execs about the dramatic new advertising structure that he’s put into place, there is always the requisite inspirational speaker and this time sources said it was former tennis champ Andre Agassi appearing there get the troops juiced. The once pugnacious athlete — who is now married to another tennis phenom Steffi Graf — was a probably good choice, especially since one of his well-known quotes is: “Being number two sucks.”

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