Marissa Mayer New Yahoo CEO
There is some pretty interesting news in the tech world today: Yahoo has named Marissa Mayer their new CEO. Marissa has been well known in the tech circles for almost a decade. As a Google VP of Consumer Products she’s been one of the few public faces for the company, and has kept a very visible and prominent media profile.
Marissa also happens to be a friend of mine and a Stanford classmate. I’ve gotten to know her very well during our undergraduate years. (I had borrowed her computer science textbook while taking CS 106X and had spent meny hours coding my homework assignments on on her Mac.) She is an incredibly driven and motivated woman, and this latest move comes as no surprise to those of us who have known her all these years.
She has a tough job ahead of her: Yahoo, once the quintessential Interent company and one of the flagship startups form the 1990s dot com gold rush, has been struggling in recent years. It has tried to redefine itself many times. Marissa will bring her own unique set of skills and priorities to the table, and we can only hope that they will prove to be the secret ingredient that Yahoo needs in order to return to its erstwhile glory days.
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Bojan Tunguz
Bojan Tunguz was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he and his family fled during the civil war for the neighboring Croatia. Over the past two decades he has studied, lived and worked in the United States. He is a theoretical physicist with degrees from Stanford and University of Illinois. Tunguz has taught physics at several prominent liberal arts colleges and has been writing about physics, science and technology for more than a decade. He also has a wide spectrum of interests, and reads and writes about current events, society, culture, religion and politics. Over the years he has reviewed many of the books that he has read, and posted his reviews on various online outlets. In 2011 he had become a top 10 reviewer on Amazon.com, where he continues to be very active. Aside from reading and writing, Tunguz enjoys traveling, digital photography, hiking, and fitness. He resides with his wife in Indiana. You can follow my review updates on the following pages as well: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tunguzreview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tunguzreviews Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104312842297641697463/posts
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