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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Our focus is on the user and the product.
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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.
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The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
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Steve Jobs is the best at launching new products. They have to see how he does it.
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We are excited to make an investment in AOL's future. It gives us more opportunities with more advertisers, and more kinds of advertising programs.
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We think this will be a very useful tool, but you will have to give up some of your privacy. For many of us, that trade off will make a lot of sense.
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I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.
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I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.
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Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.
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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.
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I can imagine an operating system that some day does a better job storing your data, using (a) network.
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We want to enhance the utility of the Web for users.