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Marissa Mayer

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Marissa Mayer is CEO of Yahoo.

Previously as a VP at Google, Marissa Mayer led the product management and engineering efforts of Google’s local, mobile, and contextual discovery products including Google Maps, Google Maps for Mobile, Local Search, Google Earth, Street View, Latitude and more. At 36 years old, she was also the youngest member of Google’s executive operating committee. During her 12 years at Google, Marissa led product management and design efforts for Google web search, images, news, books, products, toolbar, and iGoogle. She started at Google in 1999 as Google’s 20th employee and first woman engineer.

Marissa’s contributions and leadership have been recognized by numerous publications including the New York Times, Newsweek and BusinessWeek. Fortune magazine has listed her for the past 3 years on their annual Most Powerful Women’s list, and she was the youngest ever to appear on the list. In 2010 Marissa was honored by the New York Women in Communications, Inc. with a Matrix Award. She also been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine. Marissa serves on the board of various non-profits, including the Smithsonian National Design Museum, the New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Prior to joining Google, Mayer worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland, and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.

Marissa received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems and her M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence.

Recent Milestones

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  Marissa Mayer invested in Luvocracy. (5/16/13)
  Posted 5/16/13 at 6:47pm via techcrunch.com
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  Marissa Mayer invested in Kamcord. (12/19/12)
  Posted 12/19/12 at 9:32pm via venturebeat.com
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  Marissa Mayer invested in Getaround. (8/2/12)
  Posted 8/2/12 at 6:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  Marissa Mayer added a position as CEO at Yahoo!. (7/16/12)
  Posted 7/16/12 at 5:08pm
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  Marissa Mayer invested in uBeam. (7/10/12)
  Posted 7/10/12 at 5:10pm via pandodaily.com
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  Marissa Mayer invested in Brit + Co.. (4/30/12)
  Posted 4/30/12 at 5:37pm via techcrunch.com
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  Marissa Mayer invested in Minted. (11/15/11)
  Posted 11/15/11 at 6:33pm via techcrunch.com
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  Marissa Mayer invested in Airtime. (10/6/11)
  Posted 4/15/11 at 12:02pm via techcrunch.com
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  Marissa Mayer invested in One Kings Lane. (2/11/11)
  Posted 2/11/11 at 12:40am via techcrunch.com
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  Marissa Mayer added a position as Vice President, Location & Local Services at Google. (10/12/10)
  Posted 10/12/10 at 9:34pm
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  Marissa Mayer invested in Square. (11/1/09)
  Posted 12/1/09 at 11:05am

Investments

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Sources

1. Luvocracy Raises $11M From Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures And Others To Master Ecommerce And Social Recommendations (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/19/mobile-game-recording-yc-alum-kamcord-raises-1-5-million-from-andreessen-horowitz-google-ventures-and-others/ (venturebeat.com) [edit]
3. Getaround Raises $13.9M Series A Led By Menlo Ventures, Launches Getaway For Managed Car Rentals (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. uBeam Raises 750k from FF Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, CrunchFund and Angels (pandodaily.com) [edit]
5. Brit Morin Engages $1.25M From Marissa Mayer, Aileen Lee, Founders Fund And More To Launch Her First App, Weduary (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. Benchmark, Marissa Mayer Put $5.5M In Stationery Design And Retail Site Minted (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. One Kings Lane Grows 500% In 2010, Takes $23 Million Investment (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Company Communication [edit]