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Wow. Marissa Mayer is a serious self-promoter. When she can't take credit for an idea, she tries to take credit for "not killing" an idea?
by far33d 19y ago
Wow. Marissa Mayer is a serious self-promoter. When she can't take credit for an idea, she tries to take credit for "not killing" an idea?
- run4yourlives 19y agoShe was the Program Manager, and I don't think that she's taking credit for anything here. She's obviously open to reviewing her decisions and opinions, and that's more than most people are able to do. I think your criticism is a little undeserved based on this article.
- paul 19y agoPM actually stands for "Product Manager", and she wasn't in a position to directly kill anything, though she was very much against the ads (the story makes it sound as though she quickly changed her mind, which is not what I remember).
- run4yourlives 19y agoThanks for the clarification Paul.
- brlewis 19y agoIf she was still very much against the ads after seeing your implementation, then yes, the story is very different. It says she changed her mind while waiting for you to come into the office after your all-nighter implementing it.
- eusman 19y agohey, anyone at that time that wanted to keep something free was against advertisments, and many were trying to find a way to do just that. obviously you are too young to remember that, and obviously Google did it first with Paul and AdSense. A lot of ad skepticals changed their view of ads when adSense came. So, I would say its good that she recognizes that
- far33d 19y agoThis was my impression after reading a valleywag article. Probably bad form on my part, but whatever. Also, I doubt I'm "too young" to remember much about google, since I remember when it didn't exist.