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Marissa Ann Mayer is an American businesswoman and investor who has greatly influenced the development of Google Inc., the world’s leading search engine company, in its early years. She was born on May 30, 1975, in Wausau, Wisconsin, to parents Margaret Mayer, a Finnish art teacher and homemaker, and Michael Mayer, an environmental engineer. She grew up in Wausau with her younger brother. Mayer studied symbolic systems and computer science with an emphasis on artificial intelligence at Stanford University, receiving a B.S. degree in 1997 and an M.S. degree in 1999. She declined a high-paying consulting job to take a position with Google in 1999 as the company’s first female software engineer and only its 20th employee. She soon became an influential figure there, steering many highly successful efforts in her roles as product manager, designer, and executive. Mayer co-founded Sunshine Contacts and served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017. She is currently the co-founder of Lumi Labs, a technology studio focused on the intersection of consumer media and artificial intelligence.

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Marissa Ann Mayer is an American businesswoman and investor who has greatly influenced the development of Google Inc., the world’s leading search engine company, in its early years. She was born on May 30, 1975, in Wausau, Wisconsin, to parents Margaret Mayer, a Finnish art teacher and homemaker, and Michael Mayer, an environmental engineer. She grew up in Wausau with her younger brother. Mayer studied symbolic systems and computer science with an emphasis on artificial intelligence at Stanford University, receiving a B.S. degree in 1997 and an M.S. degree in 1999. She declined a high-paying consulting job to take a position with Google in 1999 as the company’s first female software engineer and only its 20th employee. She soon became an influential figure there, steering many highly successful efforts in her roles as product manager, designer, and executive. Mayer co-founded Sunshine Contacts and served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017. She is currently the co-founder of Lumi Labs, a technology studio focused on the intersection of consumer media and artificial intelligence.

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