American - Businesswoman | May 30, 1975 -
I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.
Marissa Mayer
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Our mission is making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.
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When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'
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I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.
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I want Yahoo to be the absolute best place to work, to have a fantastic culture.
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I loved Stanford and symbolic systems. For me, I came to Stanford assuming I would be a doctor and got really deep into chemistry and biology, but I noticed everyone who was on the same track as me was taking the exact same classes. I wanted to do something more unique.
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One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
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Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to - and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.
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I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.
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I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.
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I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.
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The baby's been way easier than everyone made it out to be.
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