Marissa Mayer

American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!

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Born:May 30, 1975

Age:51

Zodiac Sign:Gemini

Born in:Wausau, United States

Residence:Palo Alto, United States

Languages:English

Engineer Computer Scientist Business Executive

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Awards

Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2016)Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2014)Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2013)honorary degree (2009)

Marissa Mayer

American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!

Biography

Marissa Ann Mayer (; born May 30, 1975) is an American business executive, software engineer, and investor who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017, when it was sold to Verizon. She was a long-time executive, usability leader and key spokesperson for Google (employee No. 20), and was its first woman software engineer. Mayer later co-founded Sunshine and, after its assets were acquired in 2025, founded the artificial intelligence company Dazzle AI.

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Quotes

“David Karp is just incredibly special. I like to think that I’m good at empathy, but I will say that David Karp is just incredibly empathetic and really in tune with the community of people that he has, that are contributing and creating on Tumblr.”

— fortune.com.

“I think I’ve always thought of culture as DNA. I don’t know a lot about genetics, but I understand some of it and I think that what you really want are the genes that are positive to hyper-express themselves in culture.”

— fortune.com.

“It was the height of the first boom, so it was 1999. It was a good year to be a graduate in computer science.”

— fortune.com.

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Photos

Techcrunch Disrupt SF 2013. Photo by Max Morse for Techrunch.

Marissa Mayer at an interview while working for Google.

Marissa Mayer at the Google "Search On" event in 2010.

Erik Schatzker (L), Anchor and Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg Television, USA and Marissa Mayer (R), Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo, USA; Young Global Leader prepare for the session 'An insight, an idea with Marissa Mayer' at the Annual Meeting 2013 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013.

Erik Schatzker (L), Anchor and Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg Television, USA and Marissa Mayer (R), Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo, USA; Young Global Leader discuss for the session 'An insight, an idea with Marissa Mayer' at the Annual Meeting 2013 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013.

Marissa Mayer, Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo, USA; Young Global Leader holds a glass of water during the session 'An insight, an idea with Marissa Mayer' at the Annual Meeting 2013 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013.

Marissa Mayer, Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo, USA; Young Global Leader concentrates for the session 'An insight, an idea with Marissa Mayer' at the Annual Meeting 2013 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2013.