Marissa Ann Mayer (born May 30, 1975) is currently the CEO of yahoo(Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle) and is the youngest women CEO of a company.
She graduated from Stanford University with honors and specialized in artificial intelligence (the booming field today) . She worked in UBS lab,Zurich.She was the 20th employee of Google and played key roles in Mayer held key roles in Google search, google images, google news , google maps, google books, google product search ,google toolbar and gmail. Mayer was named to Fortune magazine's annual list of America's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 with ranks at 50, 44, 42, 38 and 14 respectively. In 2008, at age 33, she was the youngest woman ever listed. Mayer was named one of Women of the Year in 2009.
The video I found in youtube about Marissa Mayer impressed me more. And for those of you who are reading this, please do go and check about Marissa on youtube.
She told in one of the interviews that when all her friends chose to go for modeling, she wanted to do something different, explore new things and wanted to achieve greatness and she thanks herself for taking that initiative to deviate from modeling and go into the technical field.
What I learnt out of this is that you are never too young, nor too old to achieve something. She is a technocrat which is something I aspire to be and one of my role models.Be brave to be different.believe in yourself
“If not now!. Then when?”
She is indeed a true inspiration...
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