Marissa Mayer
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.Collection: Computers
You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.Collection: Technology
Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.Collection: Technology
Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.Collection: Technology
You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.
With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.
When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world.
Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.
I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.
Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.
To me, speed is really about convenience.
I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months.
Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.
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.'
The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.
Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.
The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.
If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.
Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.
It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.
I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.
Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.
I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.
When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.
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.
I really love color.
I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.
Well, I think the social networking is really interesting.
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.
I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
I refuse to be stereotyped.
I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.
I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.
I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.'
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.
For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
I've always liked simplicity.
I was Google's first woman engineer.
My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.
I like to stay in the rhythm of things.
Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.