After months of virtual seclusion since her appointment as Yahoo CEO this summer, Marissa Mayer broke her silence with a public interview (video below) at Fortune’s The Most Powerful Women dinner this week in Palo Alto. Mayer is a product person, and the decision of Yahoo’s board to hire her rather than keep interim CEO Ross Levinsohn was explicitly a decision to prioritize product over content. The question on everyone’s mind is how Mayer plans to turn Yahoo’s vast stable of products into something competitive with the best of today’s web and mobile apps.
"How can you not get in the user's way?"
When Fortune’s Patricia Sellers asked the CEO what makes a great product, she replied, “something where you see an acute user...
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