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Marissa Mayer
13 quotes
“I’ve tried to be gender-blind and believe tech is a gender-neutral zone but do think there has been gender-charged reporting. We all see the things that only plague women leaders, like articles that focus on their appearance, like Hillary Clinton sporting a new pantsuit. I think all women are aware of that, but I had hoped in 2015 and 2016 that I would see fewer articles like that. It’s a shame.”
Marissa Mayer (born 1975) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: according to Marissa Mayer hits out at 'gender bias' as Yahoo is sold for $5bn (25 Jul 2016)
“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.”
Marissa Mayer (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Marissa Mayer (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was the height of the first boom, so it was 1999. It was a good year to be a graduate in computer science.”
Marissa Mayer (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was at Google. And if you looked at Tumblr and Yahoo!, you know when you look at a map and you can see the way that South America and Africa used to fit together, I sort of joked that as we got to know Tumblr we were like we kind of felt like those continents, like our users were older, their users were younger.”
Marissa Mayer (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that the big piece here is that it really allows us to partner. Yahoo! has always been a very friendly company.”
Marissa Mayer (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
Marissa Mayer (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.”
Marissa Mayer (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m proud of what we achieved at Yahoo. That said, we had a quickly decaying legacy business. All we really managed to do was offset the declines.”
Marissa Mayer (born 1975) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times: "Marissa Mayer Is Still Here" (18 April 2018)
“There are different phases of companies. When you’re in the tens of people, the idea itself either attracts people or it doesn’t. People are there because they think the problem you’re trying to solve is just that important.”
Marissa Mayer (born 1975) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The New York Times: "Marissa Mayer Is Still Here" (18 April 2018)
“I've heard both the founding stories of Google and Yahoo, and for both those companies, the founders didn't even have to get into a car. They could literally go to the law office, the venture capitalists, the bank... on a bike. It's all that close together.”
Marissa Mayer (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source