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.
motivational rooms persons
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
feelings risk scared
If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
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.
long maternity week
My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.
problem unsolved-problems
Search is an unsolved problem.