Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl

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Thus, the former Google engineer and CEO of Yahoo, who has worked on artificial intelligence for 25 years, christened her startup Sunshine..

When someone pointed out that Yahoo was search, mail, news, maps, mobile, and some socialall these different components Id done in my career, all these different problems Id worked onI thought, maybe I could take what Ive learned and apply them effectively in this new context...

Yes, taking all those Yahoo products and putting them on mobile was a good idea, but it needed to happen five to eight years earlier than it did..

One of the things that happens when you get togethernow of course, we all have to be remote sometimesis youre just so much more collaborative..

And by making you more efficient at these everyday organizational tasks, you can spend your time thinking about what you want to do and who you want to do it with instead of asking, Do I have their phone number?.

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