This week I am in the Bay Area. I gave a talk at UC Davis yesterday and will be visiting some interesting people in Silicon Valley the rest of the week. While driving on I-80 and approaching Berkeley, I turned to the KQED program "Forum". The guest today was Marissa Mayer of Google. She tends to do most of the high-profile media stuff for the company. And she has a broad sense of what's going on. She also is very disciplined, never revealing more than she should. In fact, her tone is a bit too reserved and her diction too precise to generate the sort of intimacy that engenders trust. But no matter. This interview is a great summary of what Google has been up to lately:
Recently on Forum Wed, Apr 23, 2008 -- 10:00 AM Google's Marissa Mayer Listen Listen (RealMedia stream) Listen Download (MP3) (Windows: right-click and choose "Save Target As." Mac: hold Ctrl, click link, and choose "Save As.")In an annual ranking of the world's top brands announced this week, Mountain View-based Google topped the list with a brand value of $86 billion. We welcome Google vice president Marissa Mayer - the first female engineer hired by the company - for a conversation on Google's rapid growth and on her response to critics who say the company has become too powerful.
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