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On the morning of Thursday, July 12, 2012, Yahoo's interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, still believed he was going to be named permanent CEO of the company.

He had just one meeting to go.

That meeting was a board meeting, to be held that day in a room on the second floor of Yahoo's Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters.

The room was big, with a large horseshoe table and video screens on the walls.

The agenda for the meeting: Levinsohn was going to brief the directors on his plan for Yahoo, should he be named permanent CEO.

Levinsohn walked into the room; all of his top executives followed.

There was Jim Heckman, Levinsohn's top dealmaker, who'd spent months negotiating a huge deal with Microsoft.

There was Shashi Seth, Yahoo's top product management executive, already planning a long-needed update to Yahoo Mail and the Yahoo home page. There was chief financial officer Tim Morse, who'd just completed a critical, company-saving d