A page-turning warts-and-all narrative about Marissa Mayer’s efforts to remake Yahoo as wellas her own rise from Stanford University undergrad to CEO of a ＄30 billioncorporation by the age of
thirty-eight.When Yahoo hired starGoogle executive Marissa Mayer to be its CEO in 2012, employees rejoiced. Theyput posters on the walls throughout Yahoo’s California headquarters. On them was
Mayer’s face and one word: hope.Just over ayear later--on November 4, 2013--Mayer sat in front of those same employees in ahuge cafeteria on Yahoo’s campus and took the beating of her life. Her
hairwet and her tone defensive, Mayer read and answered a series of employee-posedquestions challenging the basic elements of her plan. There was anger in theroom; and behind it, a question:
Was Mayer actually going to be able to do thisthing?Nicholas Carlson’sfast-paced narrative is the inside story of Mayer’s controversial rise at Google, her desperatefight to save an Internet
icon, and how Yahoo got into such awful shape in the first place.
