Can Yahoo's New Young, Female CEO Stop Yahoo from Sucking?
LatestToday, Yahoo sent purple exclamation points through Silicon Valley when it announced that longtime Google executive Marissa Mayer will be the company’s new CEO. What would possess a woman to go from arguably the coolest internet company to arguably the saddest? Did Mayer bump up against it the world’s highest glass ceiling?
The Times reports that Mayer, who was Holy Crap born in 1975, has been with Google since nearly the beginning. She was Google’s first female engineer, and worked her way up to number 20 in the company. She’s mentored all sorts of famous rich nerds. But, even after being one of Google’s most visible executives and helping develop some of the company’s most successful products, what Google could offer her could no longer match her ambition.