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
technology thinking people
I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.
jocks ruffles computer
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.
badass technology thinking
I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
innovation vision born
Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.
long maternity week
My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.
wonderful moments break
Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
problem unsolved-problems
Search is an unsolved problem.
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
want profession loses
I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
students good-students all-things
Good students are good at all things.
army simple thinking
I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
refuse
I refuse to be stereotyped.
math unusual math-and-science
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.
technology talent company
Talent is what drives technology companies,