Know Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer

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Know Yahoos new CEO Marissa Mayer
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Marissa Mayer who was Googles first female
engineer and its 20th employee when she joined
that company in 1999 has been named CEO of Yahoo.
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Shes responsible for the clean look of Google.com
The minimalist home page with plenty of white
space and a single search bar in the center is
said to be the brainchild of Mayer who has
overseen the launch and development of many of
Googles iconic products. Google has the
functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army
knife but the home page is our way of
approaching it closed. Its simple its elegant
you can slip it in your pocket but its got the
great doodad when you need it she told Fast
Company in 2005. A lot of our competitors are
like a Swiss Army knife open -- and that can be
intimidating and occasionally harmful.
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She specializes in artificial intelligence
Mayer holds bachelors and masters degrees from
Stanford University. For both degrees Mayer
focused on artificial intelligence which has
become a core area of focus for Google a company
that has introduced autonomous cars and whose
computers are trying to use equations to
understand human speech. She told CNN she holds
several patents in AI and interface design.
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Shes on the board at Wal-Mart
 She is also on the board of various nonprofits
including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
the San Francisco Ballet and the New York City
Ballet according to a press release from Yahoo.
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Shes obsessed with fashion
According to the Los Angeles Times Mayer once
paid 60000 at a charity auction to have lunch
with fashion designer Oscar de la Renta. Objects
that make Mayer happy include her Oscar de la
Renta cashmere cardigan with three-quarter
sleeves and pointelle detailing and enamel
buttons Vogue wrote in 2009.
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She lives in a penthouse
Its a top the Four Seasons Hotel in San
Francisco and its worth a cool 5
million according to The New York Times.
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Shes good in an interview
 In 1999 during her interview for a job at the
company Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey
Brin reportedly asked her How would you write a
spell-check program when you have a vocabulary so
big it wont fit in a computer She became a
product manager at the young start-up after
turning down a teaching job at Carnegie Mellon
University.
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She dated Larry Page
The Google co-founder and Mayer who was a
product manager at the time dated in the early
2000saccording to the book Googled by Ken
Auletta. A Gawker blogger wrote about how Silicon
Valley considered this subject taboo.
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She can make working as a grocery clerk sound
glamorous
She told the Los Angeles Times about her high
school job working the cash register I learned
a lot about work ethic from people who had been
there for 20 years. They could do 40 items a
minute over an eight-hour shift. I was pretty
routinely in the 38-to-41 range. I was pretty
happy about that. I have a good memory for
numbers. At the grocery store you have to
remember to charge 4.99 a pound for grapes and
99 cents a pound for cantaloupe by typing in a
number code. The more numbers you could memorize
the better off you are. If you had to stop to
look up a price in a book it totally killed your
average.
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She held office hours at Google
 At 4 p.m. her three-times-a-week office hours
begin. Its a tradition Mayer brought over from
her days at Stanford where she taught computer
science to undergrads wrote Businessweek in
2005. Some of Googles big ideas came out of
those meetings with staff the magazine says.
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She likes cupcakes with a side of spreadsheets
 I refuse to be stereotyped she told The New
York Times in 2009. I think its very comforting
for people to put me in a box. Oh shes a
fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and
cupcakes. Oh but wait she is spending her
weekends doing hardware electronics. She once
made spreadsheets to determine the perfect cupake
recipe she told San Francisco Magazine. Who
else in Silicon Valley could report with
absolute seriousness that shed recently bought
an array of cookbooks to study the cupcake
recipes in each created a spreadsheet for the
ingredients and then tested the recipes before
writing her own (She made another spreadsheet
for frosting.) the magazine wrote.
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She knows how to rock a wedding
 In 2009 she married Zachary Bogue a venture
capitalist and real-estate investor while wearing
a knockout hand-beaded white Naeem Khan gown
as theSan Francisco Chronicle described it. A
rehearsal dinner featured a surprise performance
from the Killers according to a blog by the
events photographer.
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Shes going to be a Mom
Call it the ultimate start-up a family! Ready
to take on yet another important role Mayer who
married financier Zachary Bogue in
2009 Tweeted out yet another announcement the
same day word broke of her move to Yahoo.
Another piece of good news today _at_zackbogue
and I are expecting a new baby boy in October!
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By  John D. Sutter CNN