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Marissa Mayer's laugh is one of those iconic sounds of American culture. Like the NBC chimes and the phrase "I'm Rick James, bitch," the nervous giggle of the Google VP forever echoes in the mind of the zeitgeist. VC Paul Kedrosky calls it "unnerving." Various Stanford students e-mailed in noting the same.
Have you missed out on the Marissa Mayer giggle? Here are two clips, pulled from her recent Stanford lecture video:
Marissa laugh #1
Marissa laugh #2
A freak of nature? A tic worthy of PR team investigation? Either way, that's just the noise you start making when you sit down and do e-mail for ten to 14 hours straight.
Marissa Mayer lecture video [Stanford]
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The slow motion might be more revealing: http://blog.outer-court.com/files/marissa-laugh-2.wav
There is a podcast: http://edcorner.stanford.edu/podcasting.shtml
Poor Marissa; why is everyone picking on her? She's never done anything to anybody. (Well, except for that minor faux pas of criticizing Microsoft for making MSN the default search engine on IE when Google is the default for Opera, Safari and Firefox. But we all make mistakes.)
it's not a giggle, it's more of a chortle
I love the slo-mo. Thanks Philipp.
This is a spliced-together bit from her talk at Stanford Technology Venture Program.
Everytime she says something that puts either her or google in a slightly less than than "world conquering" light, she resorts to the laugh.
From now on, you know it's her tell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcSujceZDmg
(Who will make a ringtone of this?)
Funny comment about the tell... it's true. If you're in a negotiation, and that laugh comes out, run!
Here's the sound in blog embeddable format.
[www.entertonement.com]
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