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


She was the 20th hire at Google, then the head of Yahoo, and now the CEO of Sunshine. For Mayer, geekery supersedes gender.

Had Mayer, after leaving Yahoo in 2017, decided to “prioritize family” and become a full-on tradwife influencer—or joined JD Vance’s crusade against child-free cat ladies? With features that let people collectively plan events and upload photos to a shared album, the app was dismissed by snarky critics as old hat. In terms of the sale to Verizon, we had previously designed a tax-free spinoff of the Alibaba assets that would have allowed Yahoo to continue as an independent company.

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