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
personalization
To me, the future is personalization .
badass technology thinking
I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
problem unsolved-problems
Search is an unsolved problem.
night thinking glasses
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
prioritize
You have to ruthlessly prioritize.
students good-students all-things
Good students are good at all things.
years numbers imagine
I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
want profession loses
I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
want what-you-want
What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.
believe balance way
I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
thinking order packers
I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo—in that order.
google labs way
The Googly thing is to launch products early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants - and making it great. The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.
home army simple
Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it
ideas entrepreneur google
That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'