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Marissa Mayer
American
Businesswoman
Born:
May 30
,
1975
Good
Me
People
Really
Think
You
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Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.
Marissa Mayer
People
Employees
Young
More
Than
Want
Young People
Paycheck
I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
Marissa Mayer
Job
Think
About
Had
Between
How
Offers
Really
Hard
Choose
I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
Marissa Mayer
World
Believe
Virtual
Physical
Mirrors
Physical World
Really
I like to get myself in over my head.
Marissa Mayer
Myself
Head
Over
Like
Get
I had no idea how to eat sensibly.
Marissa Mayer
Eat
No Idea
Had
Idea
How
Sensibly
For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.
Marissa Mayer
People
Important
Google
Tool
Web
Most
Important Tool
The Most Important
Many
If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.
Marissa Mayer
Me
Woman
Would
About
More
Had
Self-Conscious
Stifled
Been
Being
Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.
Marissa Mayer
Best
World
Jobs
Well
Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.
Marissa Mayer
Think
Networking
Well
Interesting
Social
Really
The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.
Marissa Mayer
Internet
Books
TV
Physical
More
Replace
Creates
Radio
Media
Appetite
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.
Marissa Mayer
Today
Amazing
Power
Think
Scale
See
Web
Given
Compute
Intelligent
Getting
Really
Appear
Actually
Things
Starting
When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.
Marissa Mayer
Work
Great
Work Hard
Challenge
Thought
Yahoo
Because
Came
Wanted
Really
Hard
I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.
Marissa Mayer
Day
You
Every Day
Problem
Before
Every
Think
Algorithm
Took
Solve
About
Something
Something New
Through
Develop
New
Course
Got
How
Realized
Worked
Reason
Stanford
Fill
Prerequisite
Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.
Marissa Mayer
Future
Great
Important
Think
Apps
Android
Some
Blackberry
Know
Most
Mobile
Going
Us
Really
Rooted
Product
Useful
Platforms
Two
Need
Core
Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'
Marissa Mayer
Good
Google
Confuse
Say
Favorite
Would
Mentors
He
True
Executives
Always
Eric
Very
Which
Themselves
Really
Convince
Actually
Thing
Things
Humbling
There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.
Marissa Mayer
Gender
Think
Our
Relevant
More
Industries
Industry
Issue
Where
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?'
Marissa Mayer
You
Transformation
Way
Say
Those
Okay
Genes
Know
Look
Well
Parts
Does
How
Coming
Off
Get
Getting
Want
Turn
Really
Company
Here
The interesting thing is when you look at what people want to do on their phone, it's mail, weather, check stock quotes and news. That's Yahoo's business. This is a huge opportunity for us because we have the content and all the information people want on their phones.
Marissa Mayer
News
You
Business
Phones
People
Phone
Opportunity
Weather
Mail
Check
Look
Yahoo
Content
Because
Huge
Stock
Huge Opportunity
Want
Information
Quotes
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Us
Thing
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.
Marissa Mayer
You
People
Websites
Google
Building
Before
Other
Filtering
Related
Summer
Collaborative
Spent
Would
Find
Look
Built
Go
Sites
Helped
Program
The baby's been way easier than everyone made it out to be.
Marissa Mayer
Made
Baby
Everyone
Way
Easier
Out
Been
Than
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