Marissa Mayer did not join the newly combined company, now called Yahoo Inc, and she announced her resignation on June 13,2017.
20 Facts About Marissa Mayer
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Marissa Mayer went on to graduate with honors from Stanford with a BS in symbolic systems in 1997, and an MS in computer science in 1999.
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Marissa Mayer joined Google in 1999 as employee number 20.
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In 2002, Marissa Mayer started the Associate Product Manager program, a Google mentorship initiative to recruit new talents and cultivate them for leadership roles.
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In 2005, Marissa Mayer became Vice President of Search Products and User Experience.
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Marissa Mayer was the vice president of Google Search Products and User Experience until the end of 2010, when she was asked by then-CEO Eric Schmidt to head the Local, Maps, and Location Services.
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In November 2013, Marissa Mayer instituted a performance review system based on a bell curve ranking of employees, suggesting that managers rank their employees on a bell curve, with those at the low end being fired.
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In 2014, Marissa Mayer was ranked sixth on Fortunes 40 under 40 list, and was ranked the 16th most-powerful businesswoman in the world that year according to the same publication.
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On November 8,2017, along with several other present and former corporate CEOs, Marissa Mayer testified before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation regarding major security breaches at Yahoo during 2013 and 2014.
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On November 18,2020, Marissa Mayer announced that Lumi Labs would be rebranded as Sunshine at the same time as she announced its first product: Sunshine Contacts.
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Marissa Mayer was named to Fortune magazine's annual list of America's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013, and 2014 with ranks at 50,44,42,38,14,8 and 16 respectively.
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Marissa Mayer was named one of Glamour Magazines Women of the Year in 2009.
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Marissa Mayer was listed in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2012,2013 and 2014, with ranks of 20,32 and 18 respectively.
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In September 2013, Marissa Mayer became the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to be featured in a Vogue magazine spread.
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Marissa Mayer made Fortune magazine history in 2013, as the only person to feature in all three of its annual lists during the same year: Businessperson of the Year, Most Powerful Women, and 40 Under 40 at the same time.
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On December 24,2015, Marissa Mayer was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 14 in the list of 500 Most Influential CEOs.
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Marissa Mayer appeared on the List of women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies in 2017, having ranked 498 of the top 500 Fortune 500 company CEOs.
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Marissa Mayer briefly dated Larry Page in the early 2000s while he was the CEO of Google.
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Marissa Mayer married lawyer and investor Zachary Bogue on December 12,2009.
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On December 10,2015, Marissa Mayer announced that she had given birth to identical twin girls, Marielle and Sylvana.