Marissa Mayer

Recent appearances

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  AI's Defining Moment: A Conversation with Marissa Mayer

  October 14, 2026 · 📺 Fortune Conversations

  AI is reshaping how products are designed, manufactured, stored, and shipped. As companies race to build the computing capacity, power systems, factories, and supply chains behind the AI boom, a new industrial transformation is taking shape. Revathi Advaithi, CEO of manufacturing giant Flex and an MPW listee, offers an inside look at the innovations and business decisions defining this era—and what it takes to turn technological ambition into industrial reality. Revathi Advaithi, Chief Executive Officer, Flex Moderator: Diane Brady, Fortune

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  Your Camera Roll Is the Ultimate AI Context Layer | Marissa Mayer

  October 07, 2026 · 📺 MTS

  Marissa Mayer, founder and CEO of Dazzle and former CEO of Yahoo, discusses launching her new photo-based personal AI assistant. She explains how leveraging camera roll context provides personalized AI assistance, tasks automation, human-in-the-loop workflows, and novel privacy protections. Check out our sponsor Lovable: ⁠https://lovable.dev.⁠ Turn ideas into software people love. -- ⁠https://x.com/marissamayer⁠ -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X |⁠ ⁠⁠⁠  / mtslive⁠⁠   YouTube |⁠ ⁠⁠⁠   / @mtsituation   Spo…

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  Dazzle Wants to Turn Your Camera Roll Into an AI Assistant

  October 07, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Tech

  Dazzle is betting the next generation of personal AI should know more about you before you even ask a question. The startup uses photos and screenshots in a user’s camera roll to understand their interests, relationships, travel and belongings — then helps take actions, from finding a product and arranging a repair to planning activities or adding an event to a calendar. Dazzle CEO Marissa Mayer joins Ed Ludlow for more on "Bloomberg Tech." -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Tech on YouTube:    / @bloombergtech     Watch the latest full episodes of "Bloomberg Tech" with Ed Ludlo…

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  Marissa Mayer Wants AI to Read Your Camera Roll

  September 30, 2026 · 📺 The Information

  The Information Editor-in-Chief Jessica Lessin talks with former Yahoo CEO and Dazzle AI co-founder Marissa Mayer about her bet that your camera roll can make AI assistants more personal. Mayer explains how photos can give AI context about the people, places and preferences in your life—and how Dazzle is approaching the privacy tradeoffs. Subscribe: https://www.theinformation.com/subscr... The Information’s TITV airs weekdays on YouTube, X and LinkedIn at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Or check us out wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us: X: https://x.com/theinformation IG:   / theinformation…

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  Marissa Mayer’s Scaling Lessons from Google LLC and Yahoo! Inc

  March 24, 2026 · 📺 Newbury Images

  Marissa Mayer, formerly one of the earliest engineers at Google and later CEO of Yahoo!, offers a valuable case study in how high-growth technology companies scale process, culture, and leadership. Drawing on her experience at Google (joining around employee #20) and subsequently at Yahoo!, Mayer provides insights relevant to businesses navigating aggressive growth, rapid hiring, and evolving organizational demands.

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  Marissa Mayer on How Early Google Scaled Differently

  February 14, 2025 · 📺 PodiumVC

  Marissa Mayer, one of the early employees, on scaling Google and the internal black market CEO Eric Schmidt created for new hires: “One of the things that [former Google CEO Eric Schmidt] talked about a lot was that at every order of magnitude, you should expect every process to break—and you should expect to have to completely reinvent it. It’s very different to deal with tens of people versus hundreds of people versus thousands of people” Marissa shares a story of how one time Eric reinvented Google’s hiring process in a way that initially frustrated everyone: “We had closed the year at a…

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  Marissa Mayer: AI to Make the Mundane Magical

  December 12, 2024 · 📺 Lightspeed Venture Partners

  What is the future of AI in consumer technology? Marissa Mayer believes this future includes AI that makes the mundane magical.

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  Cerebral Valley: Marissa Mayer (Sunshine) in conversation with Max Child

  November 21, 2024 · 📺 Newcomer

  Marissa Mayer (Sunshine) in conversation with Max Child on Searching for Consumer AI.

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  #194 Marissa Mayer, CEO and Founder of Sunshine and former CEO of Yahoo

  June 10, 2024 · 📺 Kleiner Perkins

  When Marissa Mayer was first hired as the CEO of Yahoo, the company had lost nearly a quarter of its workforce in the preceding ...

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  Xoogler.co: Fireside chat with Marissa Mayer

  June 09, 2024 · 📺 Xoogler

  The 30000+ member ex-Google community Xoogler.co (https://xoogler.co/) hosted Marissa Mayer, CEO/Co-Founder of Sunshine ...

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  Why Marissa Mayer Is Betting Big On Consumer Tech

  April 15, 2024 · 📺 Alex Kantrowitz

  Marissa Mayer is the CEO and co-founder of Sunshine, the former CEO of Yahoo, and a longtime Google executive. Mayer joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss why she's betting on consumer tech, building a new array of products including Sunshine Contacts and the newly released Shine, a photo-sharing app. Mayer discusses how AI impacts building for consumers today, and whether independent tech stands a chance against big tech. We also discuss the state of OpenAI, Google's competitive position, the lessons from Mayer's Tumblr acquisition, and what motivated her to found a company. Tune in for a…

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  Former Yahoo CEO unveils new AI photo-sharing app

  March 28, 2024 · 📺 CNBC Television

  Marissa Mayer, former Yahoo CEO and Sunshine co-founder and CEO, joins 'Money Movers' to discuss why Mayer wanted to ...

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Notable quotes

“Anyone who says they know how this is going to play out. We have a new form of intelligence. And anyone who says they know how this is going to play out is either lying or arrogant or both. So, we don't know how this is going to play out. So, we have to acknowledge that there is a possibility that things won't go well, right? That there is a possibility of that. But in the broader context, I think it's well less than”

“I think when you're dealing with a personal assistant, you really want their interest to be aligned with yours. If you think about having someone who you're counting on to delegate work to, you're like, 'Wait, why did they bring me this? Is it because of advertising or they because they also need to get a cut.' So, I think there's two ways that we are likely to monetize. I think one might be subscription based. We de”