She made her name as a pioneer at Google, then as chief executive at Yahoo. Now Mayer is entering the crowded marketplace for A.I. assistants — and hoping to draw in more women with a product that tackles the mental load.
Marissa Mayer has reinvented herself as a start-up founder, with a team of 10 engineers — a fraction of the armies of programmers she once commanded at Yahoo and Google.
The Oscar winner sat down with THR at L.A.'s Children's Institute (headed up by Michele Reiner's sister, Martine Singer) to talk about being the inaugural recipient of an award named for the late couple.