Marissa Mayer

About

In 2012, she was named CEO of Yahoo, and in her first year with the company, she helped the stock price to increase by over 70 percent. In 2017, she announced that she was stepping down from the position after Yahoo was sold to Verizon. 

Before Fame

She was employee number 20 at Google, and she stayed with the company for 13 years.

Trivia

As Yahoo CEO, she stopped allowing employees to work from home, which became a highly controversial and publicized decision.

Family Life

She married Zachary Bogue in 2009. The couple had a boy in 2012 and twin girls in 2015.

Associated With

She credited Jerry Yang for some of Yahoo!'s success due to his investment into Chinese search engine Alibaba.