In a gutsy move, Yahoo! today appointed Marissa Mayer from Google as its next CEO. Choosing a product-centric person with engineering background to lead Yahoo! was a big surprise. It is a bigger surprise that Marissa took the job after 13 years of tenure at Google.
It was just about 4 months ago when Yahoo! filed a lawsuit against Facebook in its desperate attempt to generate cash from its stock pile of patents. Now with Marissa Mayer at the helm, the image of Yahoo! cannot be any more different than what it used to be. Mayer, a well respected engineer-turned product person, will bring a new energy to ailing Yahoo!
I hope that Mayer will be successful in her new role. I am quite a bit biased in that regard. Because she has engineering background and has been playing product management role with her own perspective on aesthetics, I feel like I can relate to her approach. Definitely compared to past Yahoo! CEOs, I think she is the CEO that I want to see to succeed the most.
It was just about 4 months ago when Yahoo! filed a lawsuit against Facebook in its desperate attempt to generate cash from its stock pile of patents. Now with Marissa Mayer at the helm, the image of Yahoo! cannot be any more different than what it used to be. Mayer, a well respected engineer-turned product person, will bring a new energy to ailing Yahoo!
I hope that Mayer will be successful in her new role. I am quite a bit biased in that regard. Because she has engineering background and has been playing product management role with her own perspective on aesthetics, I feel like I can relate to her approach. Definitely compared to past Yahoo! CEOs, I think she is the CEO that I want to see to succeed the most.
