Marissa Mayer: Founder of Dazzle AI and Former CEO of Yahoo!
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Marissa Mayer was Google's employee No. 20 and its first woman engineer, ran Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017 until its sale to Verizon, and founded the AI company Dazzle AI.
About Marissa Mayer: Founder of Dazzle AI and Former CEO of Yahoo!
Marissa Ann Mayer (born May 30, 1975, in Wausau, Wisconsin) is an American business executive, software engineer and investor who served as president and CEO of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017, when it was sold to Verizon. She was a long-time executive, usability leader and key spokesperson for Google, employee No. 20 and its first woman software engineer. Mayer later co-founded Sunshine and, after its assets were acquired in 2025, founded the artificial intelligence company Dazzle AI. She is the daughter of Margaret Mayer, an art teacher of Finnish descent, and Michael Mayer, an environmental engineer who worked for water companies; her grandfather, Clem Mayer, who had polio at seven, served as mayor of Jackson, Wisconsin, for 32 years. She has a younger brother and describes herself as "painfully shy" as a child and teenager. She "never had fewer than one after-school activity per day", including ballet, ice-skating, piano, swimming, debates and the Brownies. Sources: English Wikipedia (Marissa Mayer, accessed September 2026).
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Founder, Dazzle AI; former president and CEO, Yahoo!
Company Details
Dazzle AI / Sunshine (former Yahoo! CEO)
Artificial Intelligence, Internet Services
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