Here's a resume for Marissa Mayer: Would you hire her?
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Her best bet might be to dive into an area she's never officially been a part of: venture capital - according to Pitchbook data, Mayer has been a prolific investor since 2009.
The tech industry expects her to move on. One likely scenario is that she'll become a VC, or just increase her angel investing and startup advising.
The bigger question is: Will another company want her as CEO? She hasn't proved herself to be a turn-around-to-growth CEO. And some could even argue that she wasn't even a turn-around-to-sale CEO. This sale came from pressure from an activist investor rather than Mayer's own grand strategy.
In order to help her pursue her next thing, résumé-writing startup Enhancv.com has done up a sample résumé for her.
There's no question that Mayer looks good on paper. But if you look closely at this résumé, then you'll find a few zingers in there. For instance, it says "acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion and moved the company's blog there" an acknowledgement that her big bet on Tumblr wasn't a runaway success.
There's also a nod to Mayer's rather famous, over-the-top, perfectionism/micromanagement style under "A day of my life." See where it talks about creating spreadsheets for cupcake recipes?
According to a profile on her in 2008 in San Francisco Magazine, when Mayer decided to bake some cupcakes she went about it like this: She "bought an array of cookbooks to study the cupcake recipes in each, created a spreadsheet for the ingredients, and then tested the recipes before writing her own . . . (She made another spreadsheet for frosting.)"
After looking over her credentials on this résumé, would you hire Marissa Mayer?
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