Despite what happened with Yahoo, it is an undeniable truth that Marissa Mayer is one of the most famous faces in Silicon Valley since her contribution to the tech world is not only framed by her job at the search giant, but also by what she did in Google back in the days. Although everyone knows Mayer as a cold and strict person, there´s a lot of things about her personal life that will definitely surprise you. Here are the craziest things about her.
Marissa Mayer Is A Fashion Lover
One of the craziest and coolest facts about Marissa Mayer is that far from being those kind of CEOs whose personal life is totally accordance to its work -like Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates- she´s actually quite eccentric, and if you don´t trust me, let´s say that she´s a fashion lover, which is not exactly something that you would expect from someone that has been constantly defined as cold and extremely analytic.
And no, she´s not some kind of wannabe in this field, given the fact that Marissa Mayer actually knows a lot of this area and has an exquisite taste. Believe it or not, she has an Oscar de la Renta cashmere cardigan collection which she actually wearied it as her work uniform. Back in Yahoo, Marissa Mayer used the sweater in several colors as hot pink, teal, royal blue, navy, red, black and ivory, and used to add new colors every season.
Also, another detail that clearly proves her fashion taste was her look in the 2015 Met Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York, given the fact that she was considered as the best dressed among every single celebrity that participated in the event, including Jennifer Lawrence and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
She Like To Spend A Lot Of Money
This 2015 Met Gala not only works for proving her love for fashion but also to explain the fact that one of the strange facts about Marissa Mayer is that she likes to spend a lot of money, to the point in which the tech company reprehended her for unnecessary spending. About the fashion event, let´s say that she spent no more and no less than $3 million to sponsor it, doing exactly the same with the 2015 World Economic Forum held in Switzerland, in which she threw out $2 million.
Also, Marissa Mayer was known for some eccentricities as 22,000 iPhones and wasting $108 million per year in free food for Yahoo´s employees. Although working in that company under her management must have been delicious and luxurious, Yahoo shareholder and Hedge fund manager Eric Jackson had to submit a 99-page presentation to the board calling for Mayer's ousting, considering that all of this money didn't come out from her pockets.
If all of this doesn't seem enough to prove her luxurious way of spending, you should know that he once paid $60,000 at a charity auction just to eat with Oscar de la Renta. Farr from making any comments about, I´ll just let that sink in.
She Dated With Google CEO Larry Page
Believe it or not, Marissa Mayer not only worked on Google some years and managed to become one of the most important figures in Silicon Valley thanks to her intelligence, professionalism and efficiency. However, in this period she had one of her most controversial moments, as she dated the company´s CEO Larry Page.
Looking at it in retrospective, this was probably the first time that two important Silicon Valley´s members had a relationship, and if this wasn't famous enough at that moment, it was possibly because of the fact that they were extremely discreet, to the point in which there were no kind of affection showed at the office between Marissa Mayer and her boss.
