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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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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.
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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".
I heard they kept her at bray....
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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.
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?
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.
More like affirmative action: the art of getting promoted for being a woman or other minority despite having no competence
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.
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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.
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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.
where is her muscle?
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.
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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)?
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.
You forgot to mention she was one of the founders girlfriend (Brin). That is the dirty secret no one talks about.
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...
What's so good about Google? I don't get it. They sell ads and spam the Internet with them. Big freakin' deal.
Admitting to having a hand in designing GMail? That does not impress me.