Blue eyes and blond hair betray his Finnish origins, but Marissa Mayer It's now part of American history. As head of the research and development sector of Google wrote the history of the "user experience" of search engines. Yes, because from 1999 to today, Marissa has revolutionized the way users approach the Net. Thanks to her broad views, Google, while maintaining its sober and minimalist style, has become the center of every Internet user's activities. From e-mail to street view, from the news portal to Google Books, through image search, YouTube and "Product Search".
Yahoo he can only have seen well, naming her as his new one Chief Executive Officer. David Filo and Jerry Yang's portal is nothing more than a rusty container of many excellent initiatives, first of all those related to e-mail and sports and financial information. Marissa wants to start from these very foundations to win back an audience and go back to innovating on the Internet.
At Yahoo, there are many managers who have had to pack their bags in just a few meetings. They range from the overt errors of theacquisition by Microsoft, to the scandal of the cunning curriculum of Scott Thompson. Furthermore, the American giant has lost the beauty of 41% of its value in the last five years alone. But precisely this makes the challenge for Marissa even more captivating. It is also curious that there is a repeat migration of female managers and always starting from Google. The first was Sheryl Sandberg, flown to the court of Facebook, where today is the number two of Mark Zuckerberg. Now it's Meyer's turn.
Yahoo's offer came on 18nd June and represents yet another success for the former vice president of Google, who also let the Yahoo board know that he is expecting a child. Not only was the news received without particular concern, but there is someone who has pointed out that this is also a record for Meyer: technology companies listed among the 500 majors of America (according to the Fortune rankings) would be the first head of the board of directors expecting a child.
