Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!
Yes, I did want to know who Marissa Mayer was, but that was secondary to my main goal when I decided to read this book: learning a bit more about Yahoo’s history.
To some, AOL is synonymous with the Internet, but in my case it was always Yahoo. It was such a prevalent company that when my son was born in 1998, I created a Yahoo Mail for him to reserve a short username.
In addition to their email application, I used the “My Yahoo” page as my browser homepage, Yahoo Messenger, and so many other services, including niche ones like the “Y Drive”, the great-grandfather of Dropbox. Of course it was not all roses; at some point they purchased and ended up destroying many great companies, like my beloved GeoCities, the home of my first-ever website.
Anyway, back to the book. I enjoyed going back in that memory lane and, in the process, learning more about a company that was part of my first steps online.