Postcards

Career advice from a Google vet: 10 guidelines

Ever since I met Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Google's (GOOG) former President of Asia-Pacific and Latin American Operations, a couple of years ago, I've been fascinated by her far-flung career path. Singh Cassidy worked at Merrill Lynch (BAC) out of college, then went to Amazon.com (AMZN), and then OpenTV and News Corp.'s (NWS) BSkyB. Eventually tapping her inner entrepreneur, she co-founded Yodlee, a financial-services Internet startup, and then landed at Google, where she MORE

Google vet snags a CEO job

by Patricia Sellers

One of the most interesting rising stars in Silicon Valley landed a CEO job this week. Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, the former President of Asia-Pacific and Latin American Operations at Google (GOOG) until last April, is the new CEO of Polyvore. The three-year-old company is an online platform to do "social shopping" for fashion and lifestyle products.

Social shopping? I had never heard of the concept, or of Polyvore, until MORE

Google's new commerce boss: 12 lessons

When former eBay (EBAY) executive Stephanie Tilenius emailed me yesterday to tell me that she's the new VP of Commerce at Google (GOOG), I was, I admit, surprised and a bit puzzled.

Tilenius is a former Internet hotshot who did it all. She led eBay's Korea and Asia-Pacific operations, ran eBay Motors, built PayPal to $1 billion in revenue, and after that headed global product and eBay North America. When she MORE

Powerful women push the envelope

A Friday indulgence: While I try not to use Postcards as a promotional vehicle for what we do at Fortune, I can't resist telling about a milestone we reached yesterday. The Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the confab that grew out of our annual Power list in the magazine, has sold out.

Eight months ahead of the 2010 event, October 4-6 in Washington, D.C.

That's crazy. Granted, for a few years now, MORE

Firms get fit for Michelle Obama

I ate an all-vegetable lunch today. This may not be your idea of a power meal, or a delicious one. But since Michelle Obama launched her crusade against obesity a few hours ago, I figured this would be a fitting way to honor her ambition.

For a woman who has two daughters, ages 8 and 11, and a popularity index that is way up there, obesity--and in particular, childhood obesity--seems MORE

Power Point: Drew Brees, Superman

"Drew Brees is Superman."

- Chase Daniel, a backup quarterback for the World Champion New Orleans Saints, in a profile of Brees in the New York Times this past Saturday--when most people still thought that Peyton Manning was the best quarterback in the NFL. The story presents a fascinating take on Brees' unique and extraordinary athleticism. Also, Friday's Postcard, "Drew Brees' stock in strength training," gives a clue to how the MORE

Drew Brees' stock in strength training

by Patricia Sellers

A lot of companies--including Coca-Cola (KO), Walt Disney (DIS), Intel (INTC), and a parade of automakers--have a vested interest in a lot of people watching this Sunday's Super Bowl. A record-breaking 100 million viewers is the target audience advertisers dream about.

One entrepreneur I talked with this week doesn't have the big bucks (close to $3 million) to buy a 30-second spot on Super Bowl XLIV. But Randy Hetrick, MORE

Hank Paulson's next big gig

I delved into On the Brink last evening. That's the new memoir by Hank Paulson, the former Treasury Secretary, about trying to save the world--or at least the global financial system--when Bear Stearns (JPM) and Lehman  Brothers (BCS) and AIG (AIG) were collapsing around him.

The hell, the fear, the physical illness he felt are long past. When I spoke with Paulson on Friday, he seemed mightily relieved about that--and that MORE

Distract yourself: the key to big wins?

"I get up for the big ones," Serena Williams said after her Australian Open win.

She and Roger Federer, the men's champ, grabbed the headlines this weekend, but the most intriguing story to me lies behind--in the fact that the greats who outperformed Down Under have been distracted from their main game lately. Intentionally so. And all for the better.

Justine Henin, for instance, took Williams to three sets in the MORE