firestarter81

externality

no way.

yahooLA

Apparently most of you people have never been through an IPO startup to understand how the math works. Googirl's "hundred millions" is less than 0.1% of GOOG market cap. This is an industry-standard option grant for any engineer joining a VC-backed startup at the stage she joined. Barring total incompetence one can easily vest in peace and become such a "success". If you are willing to kiss enough ass (hmmm... Googirl indeed) you get promoted to management as founders need trusted lieutenants to run things.

Now, what does she have to do with Google success? Absolutely nothing.

L&S deserve all the credit. GOOG money machine is built squarely on their vision and execution. Do you think anyone else was empowered to make any real decisions at the stage when that really mattered? Once the important things have been done L&S needed a henchman to figure out on what crazy projects to bet the keyword sales proceeds. Oh yeah and be the "bad cop" to tell all these engineers their ideas made up on 20% time suck. How many of the things she supported, I mean took credit for, became a real success?

Googirl never had to build or run a real business and made "hundreds of millions" just because Google got to a huge market cap through no fault of hers. At least the guys who left had balls to strike on their own. Can she be anything without GOOG clout? I will believe it when I see it.

The Empress has no clothes, as you would expect with any Googirl just doing her job: [www.urbandictionary.com]

ScalaWag

locutor

Figaro

You go, Marissa. Give 'em Hell.

There's too much money at stake for L & S to keep her around just for her looks.

And the fact that she's gorgeous means the whiny males can't complain that the reason she's successful is because she's ugly and no one would f*** her anyway.

I admit it, I have a girl crush. Smart, beautiful and disarmingly geeky enough to admit to weekends alone? Wow.

Valleygrrl

dalejo

bluelines

Ladyz

Cattra

bluelines

Ladyz

locutor

Mr.Spin

As for the complaints of self-promotion, I've worked in the Valley long enough to know that it's true, but hardly new.

f-k-a

ScalaWag

As for a crush, yeah, I'm really attracted to awkward, moderately attractive women with ice-cold personalities who are a decade older than I am. You're on a roll, buddy. Don't stop now.

Dweezil

ValleyBelow

DJCarbon43

tokemak

ballmer

Blackjack

Blackjack

Gen Y-er subordinates angry about not being "listened to and treated well." Whaa. Do something about it.

Arrogant executives reverting to Machiavellian techniques thinking it's better to be feared than loved. Squish. Have fun pulling knives out of your back.

You deserve each other.

stupindus

Is Marissa one of these wretched souls? I do not know, but if she is, she is undoubtedly is not the sole specimen at Google.

BartKela

It sounds to me like you have a crush.

MarkTheMarketWatcher

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She was hired early on and interviewed by people we know were apart of the reason Google is where it is (the founders, the earliest employees), she was involved at a high level in projects before the company was a big success, and throughout the process of Google's growth she held an important executive position. What the fuck else do you want? According to whatever this train of logic is supposed to be the only people that can ever be given credit for anything are people that we, the entirety of humanity, actively see do the work with our own eyes--or the founder(s), who oftentimes aren't responsible for the positive developments within their own companies.

You now have my permission to return to teaching debate to middle schoolers. Jesus Christ.

Dweezil

I'd like to hear the dirt first hand...

Or are people too scared fo GOOG to even blog anonymously?

gianni

What has she produced with those 150 PMs? I don't know what "search products" entails at Google, but IMO, nothing outside of core web search, AdSense and AdWords has been really successful for Google. At least not if you define success as ROI. Google Video, Gmail, Froogle (remember that one?), Google Answers (or that one?) are also-rans or defunct. And "user experience"? Yeah, universal search - big deal. Seems like little Ask.com stole the show here too.

Is she good at her job or not? You make up you own mind.

Steven-X

MarkTheMarketWatcher

Do you think the users would have noticed ANY difference in Google search if she chose McKinsey instead of Google as her employer? My intuition somehow tells me "no".

I think the reward system in the Valley is a bit fucked up, given that she is worth 100+m.

plushmessiah

growhappy

I don't doubt that she's a bitch, but Larry and Sergey are assholes too, and God knows Bill Gates and Steve Jobs aren't exactly known for tact. Most of these complaints, it would seem, are coming from people who were not there at the beginning stages of the company. Maybe she's incompetent now, maybe the founders are too. Who knows. Apparently she's worth 100m+, so she must be doing something right--and I doubt that something was just fucking one of the awkward founders.

Dweezil

That said, I have no idea whether she is in fact incompetent or not.

ValleyStiff

Dweezil

Oh No I Di'n't.

ChiefEnchilada

GoogleDawg

And this smells funny.

It's certainly easy to believe that Marissa leaves the plebes hanging outside of her office, but picking and designing projects for their PR value? Do we really think she's such a master of PR that she'd be able to do that, even if it was possible? She doesn't know everything about everything.

I'll buy it more when someone tells a real story.

ooorrr

buzzkill

Lawrence

Web2PointOhShit

Unfortunately it's the latter that often yeilds more success.

Runningbear

As one friend told me, "I'm there working from 7:30 AM to 7:30 PM every day. Meanwhile, the engineers roll in at 10 AM, spend half the day playing Rock Band, and roll out to party at 6."

PBwikiChris

mandarin

sggrf

Davion

mtalinm

bluelines