Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer
Marissa Ann Mayeris an American information technology executive, currently serving as the president and Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo!, a position she has held since July 2012. She is a graduate of Stanford, and was a long-time executive, usability leader, and key spokesperson for Google...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusiness Executive
Date of Birth30 May 1975
CityWausau, WI
CountryUnited States of America
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We started with one of the easiest places to organize, websites. Given our talents and skills, now we're moving to other areas of information, like books, video and photographs.
focus user
Our focus is on the user and the product.
month selling
You wait, in a month we'll be selling banners.
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You can think of it as a personal web assistant that learns about your habits and interests to identify and present web pages, news stories, and photos that it thinks you will be interested in.
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Steve Jobs is the best at launching new products. They have to see how he does it.
technology curves lines
Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.
jobs thinking offers
I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
giving-up responsibility roles
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
thinking networking social-network
Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
sleep people matter
For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
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I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
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Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender neutralizing.
fundraising becoming company
We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble
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There are amazing opportunities all over the world for women, and I think that there's more good that comes out of positive energy around that than negative energy.