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Googirl Marissa Mayer

Googirl Marissa Mayer: What is a Googirl?

Marissa Mayer, often called googirl because she is Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience. Google, a search engine company is one of the leading used search engines in the web wherein Mayer determines what products are to be released for users.

Googirl Marissa Mayer

She has been frequently interviewed in press releases and events on behalf of her company. She is the first female engineer that Google hired and belongs to the first 20 employee batch that was hired by Google in 1999. And if these facts were not enough for you, then here is a case of googirl fever.

This purple-loving googirl, once spent $60,000 on a lunch with her favorite fashion designer Oscar dela Renta. Having an Aibo robot named Rover as pet dog and loves baking cupcakes. As a testament to that, she bought various cookbooks to study cupcake recipe, created a spreadsheet for her ingredients and tested the recipes before finally making her own. She also did the same thing for her frosting recipes.

She was also quipped saying she enjoys eating vanilla fudge which gives her extreme happiness. A food lover who enjoys foods like duck confit Sloppy Joes, sliders of Angus beef with brie, and macaroni and cheese with lobster. On a trip from Zurich, she also came home with bite-size macaroons and shared her love for the product by sending invitees which is a Wikipedia link to give information about her newly found favorite food.

Fetish to make her ceiling installation really beautiful, she asked famous glass artist Dale Chihuly to make 400 pieces of blown glass in the shapes of sea flora and fauna. A stocker for contemporary art, she has a craftsman in Palo Alto. Moreover, she has a light panel containing 576 individually placed Ping-Pong balls which she herself made as inspired by the U2 2005 concert light display.

This “gorgeously geeky Googler” once dated Google cofounder Larry Page. Among her achievements were belonging to a winning debate team when she was in senior year, owning a $5 million pent-house at the famous Four Seasons hotel and having assets assessed to be over a hundred million dollars.