Source: Google search on news for "Marissa Mayer"
Marissa Mayer is in her second week of running Yahoo, going about the business of learning more about the place she was brought in to run -- for a hefty sum -- as she seeks to reinvigorate and refocus a company long described as "beleaguered" and "troubled."
Everyone seems to have advice about how Mayer ought to go about her business at Yahoo, not to mention conduct her personal life. Mayer will face pressure of a different magnitude from anything that she faced during her 13-year stint at Google.
Mayer, who joined Google as a 24-year-old Stanford computer science grad student, left one of the computing world's biggest winners for one that's struggling to survive intact. At Google, there was plenty of internal politics, business challenges and talent management headaches, but nothing came close to the scale of challenges and pressure Mayer now faces at Yahoo.
One Yahoo board member told Yahoo infiltrator Kara Swisher, "Let's be clear, she is our last hope." That would be the last hope for the board before a fire sale of its assets and the company.
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