Marissa Mayer's 3 Biggest Decisions As Yahoo CEO | Fortune

With company stock up over 100% since she began running the company 16 months ago, Mayer reflects on her choices to date.
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[@northyorksimonkim]

I admire her a lot, notice how talks a lot but doesn't waste words, doesn't waste any time, she's a strong role model.

[@wh0m33]

even after the baby, she's still fine as hell.....

[@fortune]

VIDEO: Marissa Mayer's 3 biggest decisions as Yahoo CEO - With company stock up over 100% since she began running the company 16 months ago, Mayer reflects on her choices to date. #FortuneMPW #MarissaMayer

[@FromTheHuts]

ANTHONY SALAZAR Why do you think a woman as head of a company is useless?

[@煌龍牙]

6h

[@sheenarao4109]

+煌龍牙 If I

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+Fortune Magazine How's that stock doing now?

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[@RunDCM]

The only reason she still has her job...she's female. Yahoo is a sinking ship, but she'll be ok. She already is worth more than most of us combined.

[@JustinLHopkins]

Are you on the board? No. You don't know why she's still there.

[@RunDCM]

She's there because women are lacking in the CEO's of the world. The liberal media is always bitching about female representation at the highest of levels and "glass ceilings". If Yahoo dumped her like they dumped the last 4 guys who didn't do anything then it looks bad on them publicly. Don't be intellectually dishonest with your pretentious attitude.

[@SuccessResourcesAustralia]

"I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." - Ken Venturi

[@246coverley]

I have to agree the interviewer is off putting her mannerisms is so weird

[@gbharan265]

Something about the interviewer makes me feel she is jealous about marissa or does not feel she deserves the credit for her success. Somehow her expressions, body language, tone comes across as condescending

[@dustingomez2646]

+Gurubharan S EXACTLY. I HATE hosts that act that way.

[@Onlinesully]

Gurubharan S who knows. maybe she is new to it. Maybe it was first time doing this type of interview. maybe she is going through something horrible. maybe it was just a lousy interview she did. I wish her well for rest of her interviews though.

[@andrewalbert7665]

Would have loved listening to this whole video but I could not stand the host. I hope they get a much better arbitrator for the next interview

[@Mortecha]

I hated how she always cut her sentences off...

[@supermanbatmanalexthegreat8895]

Sam Keightley She actually seems rather shy and her voice is raspy

[@supermanbatmanalexthegreat8895]

Sam Keightley also uses "like" too much, perhaps to sound younger than she really is?

[@Mortecha]

SupermanBatman AlextheGreat I was talking bout the presenter, not Marissa Mayers...

[@lukeperry8821]

She is someone I look up to

[@ClintonOrtiz]

I like Mayer's fresh outlook and common sense business models.

[@donbernie9346]

paid bot?

[@FalkonX3000]

i imagined her voice much different from this

[@nekonari22]

And it is... just look at another video and she might sound more like you've imagined. Not sure if she had a cold, or partied a bit too hard or what...

[@TheBossGrand]

it sounds like she smokes

[@Pianoguy32]

on other videos her voice is less croaky, probably talking so much all the time.

[@rmac5584]

It was a great ride, but its over for her at Yahoo

[@huntelaar1012]

+r mac why?

[@norakenora744]

This interviewer is insufferable

[@hitmaninsidezzzzz]

I bet the interviewer has three cats back at home

[@林小霙-s5d]

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[@anaayana7378]

Why ??? Everyone is saying her obnoxious !????

[@lhdhdeebdhdh]

whats yahoo?

[@westcoastflaneur]

what's up with this host?

[@wowfan007]

Great interview. Getting a few Bozos off the board is her master strike.

[@girubaby]

In February 2016, after posting a Q4 2015 net loss of $4.44 billion, Yahoo announced that it wrote down the value of Tumblr by $230 million. In 2017, Tumblr was sold again, this time to Verizon.

[@SHK188]

3 seconds in and... worst host ever!

[@johndeep2654]

Women interact so differently. Imagine if these guys were male CEO's

[@楊濠駿]

“干嘛 ”

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[@tomhanks8212]

Your mom punk.

[@caenterprisellc6922]

It's very very important to know that while working I was made aware that my parent agency NSWC Carderock was in conflict with NAVSEA about who should handle my EEO case. NAVSEA insisted on them initially handling the case. I actually took my mom with me for negotiations at the Navy Yard and can testify on what happened that day and who I met with.. So can my mom.

[@ravenhill-night-chills-1968]

she helped ruin yahoo.

[@robertwisser5825]

No she didn't, you need to read a book written by Google/Yahoo employee *Douglas Edwards* called "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" to get a slightly better informed understanding of what actually transpired and then you can understand why Google's revenue and profitability continued to increase after 2001 while the profitability of competitors such as Inktomi Corporation, Overture Services Inc., and Yahoo declined. Basically the key decisions that brought Yahoo where it is today were made by Timothy Andrew Koogle during that 1999 to 2001 period when the company lost more than 50% of its value, Marissa is just getting blamed for bad circumstances that she inherited from predecessors and it can be exceedingly difficult to make a large organization such as Yahoo.com or the British passenger liner the "RMS Titanic" do a 180 degree U-turn after the ship has already hit the Iceberg. If you read another book by Robert X. Cringely called "The Decline and Fall of IBM" then you will see that the exact same pattern that happened at Yahoo.com is also happening right now at IBM, i.e. IBM was stuck in a bad place under the leadership of John Opel and John F. Akers,, then Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. temporarily got IBM out of the mess that they were stuck in, then Samuel J. Palmisano made some disastrous decisions as IBM CEO that ruined IBM's long term profitability because these decisions were focused on the short term gains of temporarily maximizing IBM shareholder value on the stock market, and now Ginni Rometty is given the near impossible task of trying to clean up Sam Palmisano's mess, which to be fair, is an near impossible task akin to someone who is not Hercules trying to clean out the Augean stables. If you read this blog entry written by Robert X. Cringely, it explains a little bit about what's been going on in 2015 - 2016 with Marissa Meyer and Ginni Rommetty both being tasked with cleaning up the broken corporate machines that they inherited from their predecessors, see link below: www.cringely.com/2015/11/30/soylent-green-now-made-with-more-women/

[@ObsidianRadio]

Wasn't Yahoo in a lawsuit with the U.S. federal govt. because they didn't want to sell user data?

[@supermanbatmanalexthegreat8895]

Obsidian- Radio Yes, twitter did the same, which makes them, Assange and Snowden HEROES

[@michaelcarroll8369]

admittedly i was one of the skeptics, i am pretty ashamed. i'd like to have her as a ceo anyday.

[@ravindertalwar553]

Life is just to Love and to be Loved ❤️ Love alone can Conquer the World.

[@MediaWatchDawg]

Does Mayer ALWAYS sound like she's just come out of a shouting match?

[@dustingomez2646]

she's so cute. I was just wondering what she would sound like and look like in video.

[@BenRangel]

Life is hard for Yahoo. They were close to buying Google for $1 billion in 2002. They were close to buying FB for $1 billion in 2006. So in 2012 it seemed like Tumblr could be the new big thing, they took their chance and bought it. Turned out it didn't grow as fast as they could and couldn't be monetized to make their money back.

[@Emililiev69]

one thing, if the office is in the middle of nowhere and you need to travel a lot it is hard to be motivated. if the office is close to home then I agree that it is great to be in the office even longer hours. because you are free to enjoy work and you are relaxed that whatever happens you are not faraway from home. I loose all motivation to work because I have to travel longtime to get to my job and also the office is so noisy that I can't hear my thoughts... Indeed I can't do anything during the day and I have to work from home anyway on my evenings without the noise so that I can have my work done...

[@timw4369]

3 biggest decisions. When do i sell yahoo. How many stock options do i get. What do i get for destroying a company. Sorry she turned around nothing. She got the stock up so she could sell it. Killed the company. No skill in that.

[@gpang788]

She's hot

[@SchottenbauerVideos]

Thanks for the interesting interview!

[@fortune]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Atombender]

Most overrated CEO in tech.

[@dtype62]

No, Holmes is actually a fraud. She's just inept.

[@jimwichen7978]

what happened to her sound?

[@caenterprisellc6922]

This is crazy. I've been using yahoo for a long time. I have to update my email to all my accounts.

[@mxd8]

Doesn't Apple Have that built in with the OS "Summarize" ?

[@liinu01]

Great interview, thanks. Love how she's so refreshingly sincere, down-to-earth, clever and unpretentious. pretty inspirational, actually.

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[@neverloosehope4233]

+liinu01 Opposite is true !

[@KerrieRedgate]

Interesting that this interview does not reflect at all my experience of the company as a Yahoo Business Webhosting customer of 11 years. Yahoo have always fallen down with direct communication to their actual customers/supporters. And their customer service has been zero... Yes, that was "zero", even in this present era of customer relations. Yahoo announced the "sale" of their webhosting business, to spin-off Aabaco, on Tumblr! (I'd thought Tumblr was long gone.) So I had two weeks notice to extract my site and domain registration from them altogether, rather than being forced to sign with Aabaco Holdings - most of their SB customers had no idea that they had a choice in this! But it was a good move to get rid of their hosting business, as they were so bad at it. My personal File Manager on their site did not change at all (despite an annoying bug) in 11 years! Just think of the technological changes that have occurred in the past 11 years, not to mention even the advantageous complexities of CPanel! So maybe it is better that they are focusing more on their strengths now. Though the clumsy Aabaco debacle change-over has left many past customers very bitter.

[@KerrieRedgate]

***** You're welcome, Max M. I didn't mention here that Yahoo Small Business, after it had been dissolved, and was no longer hosting my site or domain registration, actually automatically extracted money from my bank account for both for another month! No way I can get that money back from them. Incredibly incompetent. I have severed all connections with their services.

[@KerrieRedgate]

***** I agree with you. Amazon's customer service and packaging etc in the past few years has really deteriorated. (In fact, Amazon also owes me money, though not enough to fight over!). Ethics is the word for our current paradigm, and if they don't get it, they won't survive, at least not in the same way.

[@DreamCloudNine]

+Kerrie Redgate it doesn't reflect your experience because you were a nobody.

[@KerrieRedgate]

DreamCloudNine I beg your pardon?

[@neverloosehope4233]

+Kerrie Redgate I myself have the best experience with amazon having bought thousands of articles from amazon. Maybe You don't know the right ways and style to be politely with the amazon employees. Politeness opens all doors at amazon!

[@Onlinesully]

it would also be nice to hear 3 very large decisions that were passed on to others

[@jiajoyj6558]

She's beautiful and my name is marissa too:)

[@Onlinesully]

Maryssa Jane good on ye both

[@Taureg]

Tumbler is probably the worst acquisition of all time

[@marufio]

This reminds me of Theranos

[@bambang303378]

Overall I like Yahoo. But please do something about YM! Its still good, but is being outplayed by stuff like BBM, Whatsapp and others.

[@EwenProductions]

its good seeing a woman that's a yahoo CEO.

[@mjsanchez2173]

Yahoo email is horrible. It sucks.

[@jeffbridges5312]

She'll last about a year or so more and then quit. Not just that job- ALL work. Forever. Watch. That's the pattern you see with 99% of women. That's why only 2% of CEOs are female. Plus any time you see a female in any position like this be extremely suspicious.. 99% of the time the reason she is there for corrupt and dishonest reasons. Any female in an administrative position only works roughly 35% of the year and this is why they are quickly fired as well because they are not showing shareholders any profit because they are doing nothing to improve the company because they're always absent. This is why women gravitate to useless seat warming government positions - to them the private sector is Hell on Earth because you actually have to perform and compete. This video is all pure bullshit. Who knows? Women might actually achieve something one day if they would actually show up for work on some kind of regular basis, learn human accountability and at least half way commit to something and actually take an interest in something beyond status, useless liberal arts degrees in college and celebrity gossip. But until then, you'll stay exactly where you put yourself - where you were 50 years ago, 98% of you working menial grunt jobs. *Source- Official Dept of Labor Statistics:* www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/20lead2010.htm

[@jeffbridges5312]

And I was right! She is now officially going to be gone as Yahoo is being sold and she will be going down the memory hole, another female fail. Ladies, do yourselves a favor *stop trying to be men. You're not men. You've failed at trying to be men for the last 50 years since feminism started, do you need ANOTHER 50 years before you FINALLY get it? You give 'loser' an entirely new level of LOW.* Get back to the kitchen where you belong.

[@jasonshoup4213]

You said she'd quit after "year or so". That was 2.5 years ago. I'm just amazed you had nothing better in your life than to monitor your KZbin comment exchanges from over the years and crow about your predictions. How's your life been since we've chatted last? Also, it's estimated that women have about 4% of CEO positions in the S&P 500 list, which not great, I'll admit, but it's STILL double your number.

[@jasonshoup4213]

I also read that the average duration of a Fortune 500 company CEO is about 4.6 years... It seems worth noting that Mayer has been CEO for roughly that same amount of time (started in July 2012). So doesn't that suggest she's lasted just about as long as the average man?

[@jeffbridges5312]

Jason Shoup Lol But they're not forced to leave because they drive the company into failure and bankruptcy and end up getting sued because of their horrific businesses practices like all women do: nypost.com/2016/10/08/marissa-mayer-accused-of-illegally-firing-men/ The 4 years is just a coincidence.

[@jasonshoup4213]

So are their tenures so short, then? If they're doing so well, why not stick around for more than 4 years? You seem to know why they DON'T leave, so why DO they leave?

[@eddinged3284]

has Yahoo even any cash flow or is it all smoke and mirrors? I mean what services do they even offer and is there actually someone paying for them?

[@neverloosehope4233]

Sell all Yahoo stocks ! Now ! They are going to become worthless Pennystocks.

[@psq1976]

This was good until I saw all the women

[@mansidasgupta7104]

Nice. Video.

[@willielavender9576]

MARISSA IS SO HEAVENLY FINE...

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[@juhyokang2571]

Okay

[@paxvobiscum777]

she's extremely cute.

[@manwaffle262]

I'm more of a google guy myself.

[@carlos_caballero]

Laurie Bream.

[@elizabethmoore9018]

Does she smoke or something? Her voice is so raspy...

[@bidbuytomasito]

+elizabeth moore She has always had a bit of a raspy voice.

[@Heighway730]

She is a dull as dishwater!!!!!!!! At least Sheryl Sandberg has charisma.

[@AH-mt3zp]

This interviewer, who may well be the worst I've heard, should realize they don't want to hear her. They want to hear the CEO.

[@clarencewhite8134]

CONTACT BIZ STONE MARISSA MAYER ABOUT THE HOUSE BEING BOUGHT FOR ME.

[@anarki777]

The share price went up because they hired a female CEO. It had nothing to do with her actual performance.

[@uptilthesky]

no, it has little to do with her performance or her gender, it's because Yahoo has stakes in Alibaba which is doing fantastically well

[@clarencewhite8134]

WHAT I JUST FACEBOOK .MY FORUM CAN IT BE DONE FOR YAHOO. MY MARKETYOURSKILL.ORG IS HUGH.I THINK I TRIED SETTING IT UP ON YAHOO.POCAHANTIS FROM TOOTSIES CABARET MIAMI HELP.ITS LEGENDARY.CLARENCE A WHITE.

[@neetrab]

Man, she really needs to stop smoking.

[@mmorel6784]

What's up with her voice??

[@maurodesouzasampaio21]

Interessante

[@zaph2580]

She is just being toppled by Theranos CEO both in the worst ranked CEO and voice.

[@juhyokang2571]

Three big ok

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nowhere to be seen now

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Beautiful women

[@lassiterbonano5640]

she was a secretary level running a company.

[@smghoreyshi1420]

the interviewer is so negative and jealous!

[@leggoego]

god what is she 15?

[@FC-hj9ub]

Unj graduate in 1999, so definetly not old

[@michaelhays3064]

Joke ! The worlds gone crazy OP OR TUNE ITTY Lol !

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Jojojo😮

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[@dothedeed]

The interviewer hasn't changed her hair or bought new clothes since the 1970's. Also, this interview isn't about you so stop cutting the guest off mid-sentence.

[@aielu9843]

Non

[@Leto2ndAtreides]

Interesting, she seems to have pretty much tried to bring Google's core way of doing things over to Yahoo... Generally speaking, their approach is a fairly good one - if you're playing a long term game.

[@rafaelloganikus8952]

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[@franzwieschalla1313]

Marcin Kolodziejczyk

[@jukebox37]

Naomi Watts is my choice to play her.

[@deepgeny1]

Now make a interview about Yahoo got bankrupt

[@JustinLHopkins]

Who is watching this video? 10 year olds? These comments are absurd beyond belief.

[@Onlinesully]

Justin Hopkins i agree with you. and it's quite mean spirited also.

[@GabrielArmaanMitra]

The interviewer is very well informed. She seems to have done her research before the interview. This is a very good practice as an interviewer as she has to know what she is talking about and has to be aware of the interviewee’s background. She is precise with her knowledge, casually letting out numbers to strengthen her knowledge as facts. She is able to hold the conversation

[@neverloosehope4233]

Wouldn't have paid her monthly more than US-$ 1800,- incl. of everything from the beginning . Her performance is less. She is talking too much meaningless unimportant irrelevant stuff (I am sure she could not repeat everything from the sense because she is not knowing what she is talking about, she is talking too fast, so that people can't grasp it) . She should have talked (and listend to) more with her own people below her at Yahoo. Irrelevant person. She should enjoy rest of her life with the 400 million US-$ she stole from the shareholders in 4 years. Totally overpaid person .

[@finbarrmcgrath1686]

Is this the lady that could diagnose hundreds of illnesses with a single drop of blood? That was a great idea. Whatever happened to her?

[@Pulseczar1]

She looks like Scarlett Johansson.

[@thusspokezarathustra5179]

Scarlett Johansson is jewish.

[@Pulseczar1]

Lying Press And?

[@thusspokezarathustra5179]

Pulseczar1 She spread Jewish Anti White propaganda. Like Clinton Jews Network CNN

[@thusspokezarathustra5179]

George Soros is also Jewish.

[@ravindertalwar553]

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[@CraigTalbert]

Re: 13:45 - that was some pretty good advice Eric gave her.

[@kassahung.selassiemeshesha8194]

THE TRUE CROSS FOUND CELLEBRATING SEPTEMBER

[@youreshouldoflearntgrammer8277]

Voice not raspy enough

[@larryabecid2819]

Lmao Tumblr

[@neverloosehope4233]

21:20 she is swallowing words so that nobody can follow her ! Weather team and flickr are irrelevant ! Also the summarizing technology everything trash . Why can't they employ humans which do the summarizing manually ? If at all. Most news outlets have special mobile versions and people want the whole and maximum information not less . Totally on the wrong way Marissa Mayer .

[@ravindertalwar553]

WONDERFUL 💋 PRESENTATION AND CONGRATULATIONS Ms MARRISA MAYERS FOR NEW ASSIGNMENT AND PRAY TO ALMIGHTY GOD 🙏🙏 TO KEEP YOU ALWAYS BLESSED, SMILING AND SHINING.

[@Emililiev69]

This woman thinks exactly the same way as me... I should meet her :))) she is smart but also crazy ( very open minded, that's what people often find crazy) ... that's my female me :)))))

[@timw4369]

her biggest decisions how to spend the money she scammed from all the shareholders. This isnt skilled financial knowledge this is how to sell off your mistakes and take the golden handshake

[@caenterprisellc6922]

In looking back I believe NAVSEA tried to make some realignment changes with its Warfare Centers.

[@jsphotos]

A transparently "precious" interview. Meyer can't even guide her charges to get email right. The runup with Yahoo happened because Meyer came out of Google.

[@MegaSwedeman]

wish I could hear the interview as good as the advertisement. Pathetic!

[@avax6674]

wow this is the nice girl that interviewed Lady Gaga in google, I didn’t know she is the CEO😲

[@NareshUppada]

Yahoo Weather Report for General Public.