Media Beat Rewind: Before Marissa Mayer Became CEO of Yahoo

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is having a good week. Her company's stock reached a 52-week high just as she was sealing the deal on mobile reading app Summly, her sixth acquisition since she left Google for Yahoo. How did she get here? We raided the mediabistro.tv archives to find this three-part Media Beat interview with Mayer from 2011, back when she was still Google's VP of consumer products.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is having a good week.  Her company’s stock reached a 52-week high just as she was sealing the deal on mobile reading app Summly, her sixth acquisition since she left Google for Yahoo.

How did she get here? We raided the mediabistro.tv archives to find this three-part Media Beat interview with Mayer from 2011, back when she was still Google’s VP of consumer products.

Part I: After incessant buzz that Google was looking to buy Groupon, word finally came that the fast-growing “deal of the day” company had turned the tech giant down.

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