Marissa Ann Mayer, born 30 May 1975, is an American business executive, software engineer and investor. She was a long-time Google executive, its employee number 20 and its first woman software engineer, and became known there as a usability leader and key spokesperson for the company. From 2012 to 2017 she served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo, until its sale to Verizon. She later co-founded the company Sunshine and, after its assets were acquired in 2025, founded the artificial intelligence company Dazzle AI. Her place in the atlas rests on her work on usability and the design of consumer web products, which sits within human-centered computing.
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born May 30, 1975) is an American business executive, software engineer, and investor
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born May 30, 1975) is an American business executive, software engineer, and investor
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long-time executive, usability leader and key spokesperson for Google
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long-time executive, usability leader and key spokesperson for Google
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