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Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's Ex-CEO, Says She's Looking 'Forward To Using Gmail Again'
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who resigned on Tuesday after running the company for about five years, appeared at a conference in London today. At the conference, Mayer said one of the things she was looking forward to in her post-Yahoo life was using Gmail again. "I am always faster when using a tool I designed myself," she added.
This story is as irrelevant as her tenure at Yahoo.
I think I'm beginning to get what happened to yahoo.
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yum
It's diaryism, if it even has a name.
I know a few folks from early google. They are not fond of this Marissa Mayer character. She was in the first 20 or so hires and the general consensus was that if she wasn't there google would still be google - her being there or not would have had no impact on outcome. They also indicated she was a land grabber. This would mean that her saying she designed gmail means she attended a few meetings about it. They also indicated that they would basically fence her - they would create the illusion she mattered to keep her at bay (Yes, Marissa. Sure, good idea Marissa. Oh, we'll get right on that Marissa).
I did not like her for one specific thing, the idea that she could create a live-in office with day care at work for her progeny but the rank and file had to work in person in the most expensive real-estate area in the world with bad traffic. Ultimately yahoo japan and yahoo's investments were worth something. Everything she did at yahoo-central was more or less zero in the end. Amazing Verizon paid for it.
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What an ass she is. That comment just insured that she'll never be hired again as a CEO. Burning bridges never goes well.
I don't respond to AC's.
My instinct is to completely doubt that she had any serious involvement in design because she's an executive type, what did she do manage the project? wiki only says:
Mayer held key roles in Google Search, Google Images, Google News, Google Maps, Google Books, Google Product Search, Google Toolbar, iGoogle, and Gmail.
Not specifically what role.
Faster at what? Running a company into the ground? Firing male workers? Complaining of sexism?
After being paid $260million at Yahoo for being utterly incompetent, you'd expect her to at least have the decency to leave with some dignity. Instead she immediately starts promoting a competitor's product, which comes across as being childish and spiteful.
If she thought her own company's products were so bad she should have fixed them while she was in charge instead of waiting until she left and then criticising them.
The only thing that gave Yahoo any value is that the previous CEO, Jerry Yang, had made a large investment in Alibaba. If it weren't for that Yahoo would have been worthless. It takes a person of low moral character to take $260million while running a company into the ground and then to criticise the company after you've left.
Wasn't Gmail a 20% project? If so, wouldn't that mean that most likely she didn't design it?
Since when do folks actually quote twitter as a news reference? And quoting some no-body twitter account that claims to be quoting someone else is NOT reference source.
I mean seriously people, might as well quote "The Sun".
looks like someone exercised their second amendment rights...republicans like the 2nd amendment.
Some of Marissa's "land grabbing" can be found in "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" by Douglas Edwards.
I heard they kept her at bray....
love is just extroverted narcissism
Looking at her actions as CEO I always wondered if she was a trove horse! A loyal googler who was at yahoo to eliminate it from within. Being an exec at yahoo that would be collusion.
Is there something here or is my tin foil hat restricting oxygen to the brain again?
in Heaven and Earth I believe. That Marissa Mayer designed Gmail is not one of them. Maybe they asked her what color some of the icons should be and then hired a proper designer behind her back. But even that's a stretch.
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She didn't design shit herself and it's exceptionally sad that she is claiming that she did, but that's what useless people who get found out do.
Slashdot will probably cover it eventually.
Since the most recent takeover, I get the feeling that the 'editors' mostly just load up the auto-poster at the beginning of their shift and then disappear for the rest of the day.
That would be news for nerds in what way?
this is slashdot, fox news is over there ----->
Did it not have a non-disparage clause? I can't imagine Verizon wouldn't have added one, right? Couldn't that statement be seen as a violation of that clause? Since she is saying in public that a competitors product is superior?
obviously.
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If only there was someone at Yahoo that could have fixed all the problems with Yahoo mail. I would have had the top person tell the mail team to get their act together and make it work. It's almost like the one in charge was spending time decorating the office and buying random shit.
"News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters". Got it?
So as a department-head at Google she "designed" Gmail, yet at the absolute ruler of Yahoo, she couldn't make a YahooMail work?
Seems that Gmail is good despite her involvement.
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must be great hearing this from your ex-boss, who drove your shop to the wall, if you're a Yahoo employee
But to be fair, yahoo was doomed well before she arrived.
CEO didn't do a thing about it while she had the 5 years of power and talks shit after she leaves? That's rich. This is why CEOs are overpaid cunts.
she'll climb the political ladder, eventually run for president campaigning that she designed the constitution of independence; people will believe her as to otherwise deny implies you are an active misogynistic fatbastard.--. i am anonymousfathoward
I hope for our kids' sake Mercer doesn't get replaced by Marissa.
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or even Google.
Serge and Larry prize loyalty and were well pissed when she jumped to be a CEO. She's smart, has lots of money and will most likely try to start something so Yahoo isn't what she ends up being known for, but she's not going back to Google.
More like affirmative action: the art of getting promoted for being a woman or other minority despite having no competence
I don't know what it is about her
Pro-tip: You're shallow.
At the conference, Mayer said one of the things she was looking forward to in her post-Yahoo life was using Gmail again. "I am always faster when using a tool I designed myself," she added.
It is too bad she did not redesign Yahoo Mail. Then the company would have gotten something of value from her tenure.
Second class citizen of the New Gilded Age
Web mail clients all seem equally bad to me. Gmail doesn't even let you select a large range of emails at one time. They all have these kinds of issues.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Nah, it's like Reddit hiring parasite Ellen Pao: she is the right gender to make them look like they no longer rape women at board meetings or whatever they do. They will make this public penance, pay her hundreds of millions, and by doing so shut up the propaganda press and regain as much as they paid in stock value easily.
Given a weaker company with 100% pay and on site childcare, or a stronger company with 90% pay, I would definitely choose the one with on site childcare.
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I'd like to know exactly what about gmail she designed? The logo? A button? Workflow? Or was it cause she "handled" the department in charge of the development she automatically assumes she "designed" it..
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Most mergers and acquisitions have clause where high ranking officers cannot deliberately defame company or its products and services and if they do so, they may lose golden parachute. This statement is definitely materially damaging to Yahoo's reputation (whatever little is left) and I expect a lawsuit by Verizon followed by private settlement. I would be surprised if there is no lawsuit.
Fair enough, but I think the original point was that Mayer built herself a private daycare ONLY in her office. That's next-level, in your face douchery.
That explains a lot about why Yahoo was a disaster. Gmail is awful. It throws away most of what was learned about a good ui for email in the 20 years previous, which is typical of ignoramus newcomers like Mayer. I hate using it, and only do so when I have to.
Just wait till you hear her laugh, you'll run for the hills.
considering Gmail has always looked/felt like a web-based e-mail client I built years earlier.
where is her muscle?
Damn right - think you deserve something for posting a freaking URL? F off.
Someone should do a "Boy Bears are Bad" Little Critter spoof cover. I'm not much of an artist, but I may attempt it anyways, of course attributing the book to Marissa Mayer.
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What are you just upset because someone uses a system the way it's designed?
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
If it was beneficial why should he not be rewarded.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
It's just a politician getting what he deserves. Why shoud we care?
So everyone is shitting on Marissa Mayer, but remember she's kept the sinking ship that is Yahoo around many more years than I ever expect it survive. Sure, it should have been put out of it's misery long ago, but to drag it out this long is a feat.
How may of you complaining about her running it to the ground ever used a Yahoo service? In a post-google-search world (aka, not when the alternative was alta vista or ask jeeves)?
More specifically, what kind of douchebag *cares* so very much that they'd bitch about it?
First one that comes to mind is Flickr. Yahoo bought Flickr, at the time the premier photo site on the web, and proceeded to do nothing to keep it current and competitive. They were developing the ability to geotag photos by dropping on a map which languished for 5+ years allowing Google to bypass them and they could have eaten Instagram's lunch if they had been paying attention.
Nice try, cocksucker. Yet, you failed.
You forgot to mention she was one of the founders girlfriend (Brin). That is the dirty secret no one talks about.
I (whoever "I" am) call BS:
https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/03/marissa-mayer-prefers-pine-to-gmail.html
"brings back memories" doesn't it
Haven't you just described what every executive does? You don't get to the top by being humble and letting credit ever go to someone else.
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Typical of a bad leader, doing almost nothing and taking all credit...
Maybe now that Yahoo has been conquered, the Verizon guys will fix Flickr so we can customize our layout again? Please? Pretty please? Oh, and make Yahoo Finance fast again? Naaa... crazy talk. They'll probably just keep ruining it.
What's so good about gmail? Never could figure out why anyone was attracted to it. What's wrong with using an IMAP client on your phone/desktop, and an IMAP server?
What's so good about Google? I don't get it. They sell ads and spam the Internet with them. Big freakin' deal.
the idea that she could create a live-in office with day care at work for her progeny
What do you expect from a bookah?
I could hinestly care less. She was a joke and is a joke riding a wave at the height of Silicon Valley hype. Some of us could give a shit about valuation, we just know the she and those like her aren't terribly impressive human beings. Double yawn.
BUT ITS A WOMEN SHE DESERVES IT
Turns out gender has nothing to do with humans being good or bad people. Definitely a bay area trend though.
Admitting to having a hand in designing GMail? That does not impress me.
Thats it... Yahoo is part of bing now... mission accomnplished... returning to fathership now...
Not Brin's. Page's.
I too know some early googlers.
Marissa hung around late at night to "accidently" bump into Larry.
The word was she enjoys it in her asshole. Her path up the chain as the bosses gf was then assured. The people with real ability there marginalised her over time as they couldn't care less that she could suck the boss dry in seconds.
She was effectively shunned to irrelevance so it was time to jump ship after Larry moved on to the next young thing.
The rest is history.
Marisa Mayer belongs right next to Shiva Ayyadurai at the Internet Hall of Fame in the "Inventors of Email" wing.
You forgot to mention she was one of the founders girlfriend (Brin). That is the dirty secret no one talks about.
you mean Page.
Gmail has one of the shittiest interfaces I've ever used.
It's particularly bad when replying to emails that have had lots of back-and-forth and trying to send an email in the middle of the chain.