Mayer is one of the ultimate superstars (or a supermanager in Thomas Piketty’s word) in the modern world: rich, influential, smart, charming, tough, young and a nerd. Though she has not founded any company. Sherly Sandberg might be comparable as a woman in business, but she doesn’t hold as strong tech background and is not a CEO yet although Facebook’s market cap is larger. It will be interesting to see what would be ahead for her in 40s, 50s and 60s+: will become CEO of a larger company or make Yahoo! much more significantly relevant in the tech industry or pursue non-business career or her career already peaked. Good luck to her. Hope she can do something meaningfully good for the world. Whatever happens to her in the future, she has been living an incredibly glamorous life so far.
As one of Google’s highest-ranking women, Marissa Mayer became a Silicon Valley superstar, but inside the search giant her dazzle sometimes wore thin, with colleagues rebelling against her imperious style. In the wake of Mayer’s jump to run the struggling Yahoo, Bethany McLean asks whether she will be its savior or its next big problem. A year and a half in, the results are mixed.
By now the headline-getting series of events has become business lore. In the fall of 2011, New York moneyman Daniel Loeb, who runs the $14 billion hedge fund Third Point Capital, staged a raid on Yahoo, the well-known but struggling Silicon Valley company. After a brutal fight to depose the company’s C.E.O., he helped raid Google for one of its longest-serving and most famous executives, Marissa Mayer, then often called “the face of Google” or “Google’s glamour geek.” Last summer, on the same day that Yahoo announced that Mayer would be its new C.E.O.—becoming the youngest woman, at 37, to lead a Fortune 500 company—Mayer announced she was pregnant, thereby completing her journey from nerdy small-town Wisconsin girl to Stanford-educated engineer to business superstar to cultural idol.
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