Marissa Ann Mayer
Born	(1975-05-30) May 30, 1975 (age 37) Wausau, Wisconsin United States North America
Residence	San Francisco, Palo Alto
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Stanford University
Occupation	Vice President of Location and Local Services, Google[1] Computer programming instructor, Stanford University
Employer	Google Stanford University
Board member of	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet, and Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum [2]
Spouse	Zachary Bogue (2009–present)[3]

Marissa Ann Mayer (born on May 30, 1975) is Vice President of Location and Local Services^[4] at Google. She has become one of the public faces of Google, providing a number of press interviews and appearing at events frequently to speak on behalf of the company.^[5][6]

Education and career[link]

After graduating from Wausau West High School in 1993,^[7] Mayer was one of two delegates from Wisconsin selected by the Governor of that state to attend the National Youth Science Camp in West Virginia.

Mayer received her B.S. in symbolic systems, graduating with honors, and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence. In 2009, the Illinois Institute of Technology granted Mayer an honoris causa doctorate degree honoring her pathfinding work in the field of search.^[8]

Mayer was the first female engineer hired at Google and one of their first 20 employees, joining the company in June 1999. Prior to joining Google, Mayer worked at the UBS research lab (Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland, and at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.^[9]

User interface (UI) and design work[link]

Mayer has notable public involvement with Google Search and Gmail, and can be considered significantly responsible for the success of these UIs^{[citation needed]}. Fortune magazine lists her as one of the 50 most powerful women in the world and the youngest woman ever to make the list.^[10]

Recognition[link]

Mayer has been named as one of Glamour Magazine’s 2009 Women of the Year.^[11]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Marissa Mayer on Charlie Rose
• Marissa Mayer at the Internet Movie Database
• Marissa Mayer at the Notable Names Database
• "The adventures of Marissa" February 27, 2008 in San Francisco Magazine.
• Video-Interview February 2007 (English, German intro, German subtitles)
• "Inside Google's New-Product Process" June 30, 2006 in Business Week Online.
• "Managing Google's Idea Factory" October 3, 2005 in Business Week Online.
• Good Experience interview October 15, 2002
• Marissa Mayer At Le Web: The (Almost) Complete Interview December 10, 2008 at techcrunch.com
• Digg Dialogg: Marissa Mayer July 30, 2009 at digg.com
• Marissa Mayer On 'Twitchy' Google, Her Cell Phone Number, And Maps May 25, 2011 in HuffPost Tech
• Cyberposium 12: Marissa Mayer Keynote Video
• Innovation, Sharing and Dreams, Marissa Mayer speaking at Stanford
• Google I/O '08 Keynote by Marissa Mayer
• cover story in the April 2012 issue of IEEE Spectrum (archived from the original on April 06, 2012)

Laura Sydell (born 1961) reports on Digital Culture for NPR. She was born in New Jersey, and is a former senior technology reporter for Public Radio International's Marketplace, and a regular reporter on for National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. She was a Freedom Forum Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California, Berkeley, teaching about reporting on culture.

Education[link]

Born and raised in northern New Jersey, Sydell is a 1979 graduate of Gill St. Bernard's School, a 1983 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of William Smith, and later earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. In 1999, she spent a year in the fellowship program at Columbia University's National Arts Journalism Program.^[1]

Previous work and awards[link]

While she lived in New York, Sydell worked on Undercurrents on the Pacifica Radio Network, and had articles published in many other publications. She has also reported for other radio shows, including Crossroads.^[2]

While a staff reporter for WNYC, her work won awards from The Newswomen's Club of New York, The New York Press Club, and The Society of Professional Journalists. Her radio documentaries of activists have similarly won acclaim American Women in Radio and Television, The National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and Women in Communications.

References[link]

1. ^ "Laura Sydell". press:here. http://pressheretv.com/?p=558. Retrieved July 26, 2011. 
2. ^ "About NPR > People at NPR > Laura Sydell". http://www.npr.org/people/2101272/laura-sydell. Retrieved July 26, 2011. 

External links[link]

• Sydell's story on Wikipedia, broadcast on Weekend Edition February 20, 2005

David or Dave Karp may refer to:

• David Karp (novelist) (1922–1999), American novelist and television writer who also used the pseudonym Wallace Ware
• David A. Karp, American sociologist
• David Karp (pomologist) (born 1958), American culinary journalist
• David Karp (entrepreneur) (born 1986), founder of Tumblr
• Dave Karp, a character in the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks

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J. Michael Arrington
Arrington at the World Economic Forum
Born	Jack Michael Arrington[1] (1970-03-13) March 13, 1970 (age 42)[1] Orange, California
Nationality	American
Occupation	Blogger, entrepreneur
Website
TechCrunch , uncrunched.com

J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Orange, California) is the founder and former co-editor of TechCrunch, a blog covering the Silicon Valley technology start-up communities and the wider technology field in USA and elsewhere. Magazines such as Wired and Forbes have named Arrington one of the most powerful people on the Internet.^[2][3]

In 2008, he was selected by TIME Magazine as one of the most influential people in the world.^[4] Wired magazine also included him in a flowchart of "internet blowhards" citing his obsession with "Web 2.0".^[5]

Biography[link]

Arrington grew up in Huntington Beach, California and Surrey, England, attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a major in economics. He went on to Stanford Law School and graduated in 1995.^[6] He practiced corporate and securities law at O’Melveny & Myers, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.^[7]

Arrington left the practice of law to join Real Names, which failed after raising $100M.^[8] Arrington was co-founder of Achex, an internet payments company, which was sold to First Data Corp for US$32 million and is now the back end of Western Union online. "I made enough to buy a Porsche. Not much more," he says.^[8]

His other entrepreneurial endeavors include co-founding Zip.ca and Pool.com, acting as chief operating officer for Razorgator, and founding Edgeio. He was also more recently on the board of directors for the startup Foldera which was designing a software as a service organizational tool.^{[citation needed]}

Michael Arrington with Chamillionaire

TechCrunch[link]

Arrington rose to internet prominence with his Silicon Valley blog, TechCrunch. TechCrunch covers internet startups and news. In early September 2011 Arrington was reported to be no longer employed by TechCrunch but associated with a new investment company, AOL Ventures.^[9] Within days, it was being reported that he was no longer associated with AOL Ventures.^[10]

Controversies[link]

Gillmor Gang and Leo Laporte[link]

On the Gillmor Gang on June 6, 2009, Michael Arrington accused Leo Laporte of giving the Palm Pre a good review in return for accepting a 5-day evaluation unit, which Laporte interpreted as an attack on his journalistic integrity subsequently causing Laporte to storm off the air. Later that same day, Michael Arrington and Leo Laporte apologized to each other. After much discussion between Steve Gillmor, Leo Laporte, Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble, it was decided that the Gillmor Gang would no longer appear on the TWiT network due to the "hostile" nature of the show which Laporte didn't agree with.^[11] Laporte later confirmed on the pre-show of the June 9, 2009 recording of Net@Nite that future shows of the Gillmor Gang will not air on the TWiT Netcast Network.

Dropping out of college[link]

Arrington has been known to advocate dropping out of college,^[12] stating at the 2010 UC-Berkeley Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series that “the best thing in the world is to go to Harvard for a year and drop out. Everyone knows you were smart enough to get in”.^[13]

Interview with Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo![link]

In May 2010, Arrington was involved in a verbal confrontation with CEO of Yahoo!, Carol Bartz. Arrington started the interview by asking Bartz, "So how the fuck are you?" To which she responded, "Is that appropriate?".^[14] Later in the interview, Bartz became perturbed with Arrington's criticism of the Yahoo! business model of conglomeration rather than single revenue source producers. Bartz then responded to Arrington saying, "you are involved in a very tiny company" and ended the exchange by telling him to "fuck off."^[15] Bartz received some support from bloggers for her response, including Guy Kawasaki who stated, "I respect Carol Bartz even more now."^[16]

See also[link]

• CrunchPad

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Michael Arrington

• Michael Arrington Personal Weblog
• Profile at CrunchBase
• "TechCrunch Site Makes Arrington A Power Broker", Wall Street Journal, 2006-11-03
• "The makings of a media mogul: Michael Arrington", Elias Bizannes's blog, 2008-12-26