Postcards
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Google's top girl geek
After I shared with you yesterday's Postcard, "Silicon Valley: Wasteland for women, really?," I happened to spend time with someone who is a top role model for young women in tech: Marissa Mayer of Google (GOOG).
Mayer had invited me (and my Fortune colleague, Jessica Shambora, too) to sit at her table at the Matrix Awards, an annual lunch honoring women in communications. Mayer was one among a star slate this MORE
Patricia Sellers - Apr 20, 2010 2:16 PM ET -
Most Powerful Women take New York
"Betting on the Future." That's the 2009 theme of Fortune's Most Powerful Women, who convened in New York City last evening for a mega-celebration and some very smart conversation. I'm not sure I belong on stage with three superstars under 40: Bank analyst Meredith Whitney, Google's (GOOG) Marissa Mayer, and Goldman Sachs' (GS) Dina Powell. But there I was (at age 49), talking with them them about how they've navigated MORE
Patricia Sellers - May 22, 2009 5:30 PM ET -
Most Powerful Women: The list about the list!
We've spent the last three months slicing and dicing the accomplishments and career histories of the most powerful women in business -- far too many facts and figures to fit into our Most Powerful Women package in the magazine. Here are 10 intriguing facts that we couldn't find space for in print:
Youngest woman to ever appear on the list: Marissa Mayer, VP of Search and User Experience at Google (GOOG). MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Sep 30, 2008 12:11 PM ETPosted in: Andrea Jung, Anne Mulcahy, Avon, AVP, Brenda Barnes, Carol Meyrowitz, CEO, CEOs, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, CS, DD, Diane Greene, DuPont, Ellen Kullman, Erin Callan, Fortune Most Powerful Women list, FORTUNE MPWomen, Google, Harpo, Heidi Miller, Indra Nooyi, Irene Rosenfeld, JPM, JPMorgan Chase, Katie Benner, KFT, Kraft, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, LEH, Lehman Brothers, Marissa Mayer, Meredith Whitney, Morgan Stanley, mp, MPWomen, MPWomen list, MS, Oppenheimer, Oprah, Oracle, PEP, Pepsi, PepsiCo, Postcards, Proct, Safra Catz, Sallie Krawcheck, Sara Lee, SLE, Susan Arnold, Susan Chambers, TJX, Ursula Burns, VMW, VMWare, Wal-Mart, Xerox, Zoe Cruz -
Power Point: Go for it, ready or not
"Always surround yourself with the smartest people. And always be a little bit not ready."
-- Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, at Google (GOOG), which was incorporated 10 years ago this week. Mayer was a 23-year-old Stanford grad and specialist in artificial intelligence when she met co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in April 1999 and Google had fewer than 20 people. The two brainiacs interviewed MORE
Patricia Sellers - Sep 5, 2008 4:54 PM ETPosted in: Google, Larry Page, Marissa Mayer, Oracle, Postcards, Power Point, Sergey Brin, Stanford, technology, Toyota -
DNA analysis heralds a health care revolution
Did you see the news this week that the two major personal DNA analysis companies, 23andMe and Navigenics, got licensed in California? What a brouhaha it's been--regulators issuing cease-and-desist letters, apparently aiming to protect consumers from sham operators in this nascent industry.
I just visited 23andMe's Linda Avey, who founded the company with Anne Wojcicki. Wojcicki happens to be the wife of Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google (GOOG), and Google MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Aug 21, 2008 6:10 PM ET -
Where are the women in tech?
As any serial conference-goer can tell you, the conversations that occur outside the scheduled panels and sessions offer equally compelling opportunities for learning and discovery. This was perhaps even more true at this week's Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference due to the broad spectrum of attendees from the wide world of technology.
On Tuesday evening, during an uncharacteristically clear sunset over Half Moon Bay, I met Dina Kaplan, co-founder and COO of blip.tv, a video-sharing MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Jul 24, 2008 7:40 AM ETPosted in: AOL, blip.tv, Brainstorm Tech, CEO, CEOs, Chris DeWolfe, Diane Greene, Dina Kaplan, Facebook, FORTUNE MPWomen, Google, Leadership by Geoff Colvin, Linden Lab, Lynda Clarizio, management, Marissa Mayer, Most Powerful Women, MPWomen, MySpace, Philip Rosedale, Postcards, Second LIfe, Sheryl Sandberg, technology, VMWare, Women in tech
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Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" cover package.
A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has also profiled former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack, and countless CEOs.
Pattie co-chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big brand companies.
In Pattie's blog, Postcards, she provides insight into the lives of super-achievers through commentary, career advice, and Guest Posts by CEOs and other leaders.
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Every year Fortune and the U.S. State Department sponsor the Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership, which brings rising-star women from developing countries to the U.S. to work closely with participants of the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit - among them CEOs Andrea Jung of Avon, Ann Moore of Time Inc., and Ursula Burns of Xerox.
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