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A well-written and researched piece. Two snippets: 'She will bring a tub of blueberries to a meeting and just stare at you, popping blueberries into her mouth.
by Jun8 13y ago
A well-written and researched piece. Two snippets:
'She will bring a tub of blueberries to a meeting and just stare at you, popping blueberries into her mouth. People feel so dismissed.”
Great way to unnerve your peers! And here's what, I think, to be a very accurate assessment of the Find the Lady game (shy nerd, powerful woman, company savior) that Mayer perfected:
"Another [...] thinks that Mayer figured out very early on that being a female engineer—a rarity in a culture that reveres engineers—gave her a pass that other women without that credential would never have. After all, her flaws, like her habit of being late, are easily fixable—should she care to fix them. “This idea that she is shy and just a quiet engineer is such fucking bullshit!” the executive says. “She is savvy about knowing that it makes her Teflon.” '
- gaius 13y agoLarry Ellison does the same, with lemon sorbet.
- devilshaircut 13y agoA great piece, I agree. Vanity Fair has some great content. I like Mayer. She does things her way, like any other CEO, yet imo much more charismatically.