The 30,000+ member exGoogle community Xoogler.co (https://xoogler.co/) hosted Marissa Mayer, CEO/CoFounder of Sunshine (https://sunshine.com/) on May 23, 2024. The fireside chat with Christopher Fong, Xoogler's Founder covered how she joined Google, started the Associate Product Management (APM) program throughout Silicon Valley (one of the early APMs is former Facebook CTO & SalesForce President Bret Taylor), led Yahoo as their CEO and a demo of Sunshine's latest Shine (https://sunshine.com/shine/)product which is an easy, intuitive and group photo sharing app.

You can test the apps here:
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Appled iOS
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shineb...
https://shine.sunshine.com

About Marissa Mayer (  / marissamayer  )

Marissa Mayer is currently the cofounder of Sunshine. Previously, Marissa served as CEO & President of Yahoo. At Yahoo, she led a fullscale transformation of the company: rejuvenating its culture; hiring more than 5,000 people; growing users to more than 1 billion people worldwide with over 600 million users on mobile; and transforming Yahoo’s business by introducing new advertising offerings for mobile, video, native, and social that quickly grew into a multibillion dollar business. During her tenure, she also oversaw nearly 50 acquisitions, the creation of more than $40 billion of shareholder value, and the successful sale of Yahoo’s operating business to Verizon.

Prior to Yahoo, Marissa spent 13 years at Google, where she joined as the twentieth employee and first woman engineer. For more than a decade, she played an instrumental role leading the product management effort for Google Search as well as Google Maps, Google News, and other consumer products. Previously, Marissa worked at the UBS research lab in Zurich, Switzerland, and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. She graduated with honors from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and a MS in Computer Science, with a specialization in artificial intelligence.

Marissa is a member of the board of directors of AT&T and Walmart. She is also member of the board of trustees for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Ballet.

About Xoogler.co (https://xoogler.co/)

We are a group of Google alumni and current Googlers who have come together to help each other, we started with Xooglers interested in startups and have since expanded. This 32,000+ member community has over 300+ events each year that are organized by Xoogler & Googler volunteers globally.

You can review the list of events for Xooglers and Googlers in the latest newsletter: https://xoogler.substack.com/p/april2024


Email [email protected] if you have any questions about Xoogler and follow Xoogler's Founder Christopher Fong at   / cfong  

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