Transferred from Google with high hopes to become CEO of Yahoo: Who is Marissa Mayer?

Marissa Mayer, who is frequently on the agenda with her fondness for art and parties, as well as her interest in informatics, was born in Wisconsin in 1975. Describing herself as a shy person, Mayer's mother was an art teacher and her father was an environmental engineer.

Her parents, who were keen on art and science, directed her to different fields when she was young: ice skating, ballet, piano, swimming, debating training, etc. Mayer, who seems to have had a colorful childhood, was also excelling in mathematics and science.

Marissa Ann Mayer (born May 30, 1975) is an information technology executive, and co-founder of Sunshine Contacts. Mayer formerly served as the president and chief executive officer of Yahoo!, a position she held beginning in July 2012. It was announced in January 2017 that she would step down from the company's board upon the sale of Yahoo!'s operating business to Verizon Communications for $4.8 billion.

Like many names in the IT world, Marissa Mayer completed her undergraduate education at Stanford University. She first took medicine courses to become a neurosurgeon, she. But then she switched from the pediatric neuroscience major to symbolic systems.

Not only did Marissa complete her undergraduate degree in symbolic systems, she later earned a master's degree in computer science from the same university. Meanwhile, Mayer is known to have given introductory computer programming courses at the university, at the request of her advisor.

Rumors are that her teaching style is highly appreciated by students. It seems that when Mayer was younger, she found success in whatever she did.

Known to have received nearly twenty job offers after her graduation, Mayer started working at Google in 1999. She is recorded as both the first female engineer and the 20th employee of Google.

Marissa Mayer first took the position of designer-production manager at Google. In this position, She took part in many product studies such as Google Search, Gmail, Google News, and Google Images.

These works were perfect for Marissa Mayer. Because she was someone who was known for her attention to detail. Therefore, it was not at all difficult for her to cope with the product studies in question.

In 2009, Mayer was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Illinois Institute of Technology for her research work. Mayer was also promoted by the company she worked for in 2010 for her outstanding success.

Mayer resigned from Google in 2012 and moved to rival firm Yahoo. Meanwhile, Yahoo had lost its popularity. And they were making changes in top management frequently.

As a last resort, they aimed to recruit a well-equipped and experienced person and rise again. That's why Yahoo offered Marissa Mayer, who played an active role in Google's rise in a short time, as CEO.

As Mayer took the CEO seat, the company focused primarily on empowering its employees. She sought ways to boost staff morale, she said.

Marissa Mayer resigned in 2017.

Her biggest criticism was that during her tenure at Yahoo, Google's homepage visits increased from 17 billion to 56 billion, while Yahoo's homepage visitors dropped from 10 billion to 4 billion.

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