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Also known as Marissa Ann Mayer

American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1977-10-16
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Quotes

  • I’ve tried to be gender-blind and believe tech is a gender-neutral zone but do think there has been gender-charged reporting. We all see the things that only plague women leaders, like articles that focus on their appearance, like Hillary Clinton sporting a new pantsuit. I think all women are aware of that, but I had hoped in 2015 and 2016 that I would see fewer articles like that. It’s a shame.
  • I’m proud of what we achieved at Yahoo. That said, we had a quickly decaying legacy business. All we really managed to do was offset the declines.
  • There are different phases of companies. When you’re in the tens of people, the idea itself either attracts people or it doesn’t. People are there because they think the problem you’re trying to solve is just that important.
  • I've heard both the founding stories of Google and Yahoo, and for both those companies, the founders didn't even have to get into a car. They could literally go to the law office, the venture capitalists, the bank... on a bike. It's all that close together.

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Key facts

Born
Marissa Ann Mayer , ( 1975-05-30 ) May 30, 1975 (age 51) , Wausau, Wisconsin , U.S.
Education
Stanford University ( BS , MS )
Occupations
Software engineer, business executive
Title
Co-founder, Sunshine Contacts
Board member of
AT&T Inc. Nextdoor San Francisco Ballet Starbucks Walmart
Spouse
Zachary Bogue ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2009 ) ​

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Encyclopedic overview

Marissa Ann Mayer (/ˈmaɪ.ər/; born May 30, 1975) is an American business executive, software engineer, and investor who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017, when it was sold to Verizon. She was a long-time executive, usability leader and key spokesperson for Google (employee No. 20), and was its first woman software engineer. Mayer later co-founded Sunshine, a startup technology company.

Early life

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