Marissa Mayer: The Visionary

http://www.glamour.com/women-of-the-year/2009/marissa-mayer

by PeterRosdahl • 17 years ago

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BigZaphod2• 17 years ago

Choice quote:

“Get in a bit over your head,” she says. “That’s how you grow and learn and stretch yourself.”

physcab4• 17 years ago

We need more articles about women in technology circles here on HN. Thanks for posting.

moldenke• 17 years ago

I think calling this an article might be pushing it.

physcab4• 17 years ago

I didn't call it an article. Read what I wrote again. I was making a statement to encourage the community to post most articles about women in technology. But thanks for the snarky comment.

byrneseyeview2• 17 years ago

"We" might, but women in technology don't. When someone writes about a successful man, people can assume that it's because he's successful; if someone writes about a successful woman, comments like yours make it seem like she's just being written about because she's a she.

physcab4• 17 years ago

Wow. You are reading way too much into my statement. I was just trying to voice encouragement. Why don't you try to be more supportive?

tiffani• 17 years ago

+1 for that. How about inviting her to Startup School next year even?

coriander• 17 years ago

Did anyone notice she's sitting on a Swiss ball wearing stilettos and a clingy red dress?

BigZaphod2• 17 years ago

Of course - but I think some of us wish that for once there could be an article about a woman in tech that didn't make a big point about her gender and include a staged, sexy picture. :/

unalone2• 17 years ago

This isn't a tech article. It's a women's fashion article.

jamesbritt• 17 years ago

Did anyone notice this is Glamour magazine?

Shana• 17 years ago

You aren't going to get a good article about her aesthetic push in Google without a mention of either her upcoming marriage or her taste in ODLR.

Vogue's article was worse.

They post her in women's mags because she is cute, she's has designs touch, and she works for Google. I would prefer to see Caterina Fake. She has a brilliant understanding of HCI, that most of us will never top in our lifetimes. She's has doctorate from RISD. She's doing the startup thing RIGHT NOW. She's brilliant. She also has great style. You know that because no one would dare go up to her after a presentation and say:"Is that Jane Mayle you are wearing?" She just pulls it off as a professional, and that's that. (seen this in person at the New York Tech Meetup, I actually recognized the jacket she was wearing from somewhere, but she wore it perfectly, and no, I would not have dared go up to her and asked, where did you get said jacket.)

Bad conde nast (though I will vogue and W forever)

Marissa Mayer: The Visionary

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