“I think it's very comforting for people to put me in a box. 'Oh, she's a fluffy girlie girl who likes clothes and cupcakes. Oh, but wait, she is spending her weekends doing hardware electronics.'”

American business executive, software engineer, and investor

Marissa Mayer is an American business executive, software engineer, and investor. Born in 1975, she is known for her leadership roles at Google and later as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017, when the company was sold to Verizon. At Google, Mayer was a long-time executive, a usability leader, and a prominent spokesperson, and she was the company’s first woman software engineer. She later co-founded Sunshine, and after its assets were acquired in 2025, she founded the artificial intelligence company Dazzle AI.