Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo

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Women in business are still fighting the good fight and making monumental progress for women everywhere. This is especially true for women in industries that are male dominated like construction, science, engineering and technology. 

The beauty in these fields is that as they advance, so does the education discipline options. Symbolic Systems has become a new major that was development as the technology field evolved and there was a need for a connection between mind and machine. This study is a hybrid of computer science, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, psychology and statistics. 

Marissa Mayer is exactly that. This Stanford Graduate of Symbolic Systems, took the technology industry by storm by being one of the first influential women in tech--starting her career as a developer at Google. After a short time, she identified that there were others that were more efficient in development than she. Mayer switched to User Experience Design and is the creator of the Google homepage and products that we see and love today. Then a steamy romance with Google Co-founder Larry Page, was part of her rise and fall at Google before being appointed the CEO at Yahoo.

Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo by Nicolas Carlson, is a great read for women in or headed into the tech industry. It is a page turning story and an incredibly insightful background on all the Silicon Valley tech giants, the big players and some of the biggest successful and failed acquisitions in history. 

Find the full copy at your local library, kindle or download a verbal version on the audible app.



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