For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
Beyond basic mathematical aptitude, the difference between good programmers and great programmers is verbal ability.
I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.
Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.
Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?
The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.
Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.
I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.
Yahoo!, over the years, had been the king of the banner ad.
Communications is the biggest driver of frequency of use of anything. Think about how many times a day you check your email on your phone or text someone or message someone.
The thing that surprised me and really puzzled me is that the job is really fun. Yahoo is a really fun place to work.
I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day was a new problem, and every day you got to think about how to solve something new, how to reason through something new, how to develop an algorithm to solve for something you hadn't worked on before.
I think like my dad, but I have a huge kinship with my mom.
There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.
Our mission is making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.
When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'
I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.
I want Yahoo to be the absolute best place to work, to have a fantastic culture.
I loved Stanford and symbolic systems. For me, I came to Stanford assuming I would be a doctor and got really deep into chemistry and biology, but I noticed everyone who was on the same track as me was taking the exact same classes. I wanted to do something more unique.
