Former Google executive, Marissa Mayer, made headlines when she quit the search engine giant to become the new CEO of Yahoo!. At Google, Mayer was used to her role in front of the camera and rarely missed an opportunity to talk to the press about products and services that her company was launching. That is why it was a surprise that the newly minted CEO became media shy when she took over at Yahoo!. It seems as though the wait is now over as it has been announced that Mayer will be taking part in her first interview as Yahoo! CEO at a Fortune magazine event.
The November 27 sit down will be part of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women series, and according to the magazine Mayer, “plans to talk about where she is taking Yahoo and what excites her about the future of technology.” The Yahoo CEO has spoken about the direction she wants to take the company during a third-quarter earnings call. Mayer’s highlighted a strategy in which the company would focus on mobile and look towards buying up companies in smaller deals. She told people that, “Yahoo! will have to be a predominantly mobile company,” and bought mobile start-up Stamped soon after the earnings call.
The interview could have occurred at a TechCrunch Disrupt event where the Yahoo CEO was asked to give an interview but she instead chose to be a demo judge. It is now expected that the Fortune interview will be conducted by the magazine’s editor-at-large, Pattie Sellers. Sellers heads the well known Most Powerful Women conference and the list that appears in the magazine. This year Mayer is on the cover of the Magazine that features the Most Powerful Women. Sellers is not a new comer to reporting on Mayer and did a profile on her earlier titled “Ready to Rumble at Yahoo.”
The interview should give people a lot more details about exactly what direction Yahoo is taking and Mayer may also talk about her personal life including her new-born son.
Source: All Things D
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