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
providing results saw search user users
This has been one of the longstanding unfilled user needs. We saw a search need where we weren't providing users with the highest-quality results that we could.
imagine job operating system using
I can imagine an operating system that some day does a better job storing your data, using (a) network.
focus user
Our focus is on the user and the product.
smart player thinking
It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on a different level. If you play with better players, you learn a lot: perspectives, intellectual arguments, new ways of thinking about things.
differences aptitude mathematical
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
lists bottom
Success is never getting to the bottom of your to-do list.
picks
Pick something and make it great.
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.
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
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.