Marissa Mayer and Yahoo: Silicon Valleys New Odd Couple?

While Marissa Mayer's decision to leave Google for Yahoo on Monday appeared to take the former by surprise, perhaps it shouldn't have. Back in 2009, Google execs saw Mayer as a flight risk. As a New York Times article detailed at the time, Mayer's then-boss, Jonathan Rosenberg, tracked her down on vacation in Africa to ask if she was leaving.

She wasn't and went out of her way to tell Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin that she had no plans to leave. The fact that the two were worried is a good indication of Mayer's standing there. Mayer had not only been at the company a very long time by Silicon Valley standards -- she joined in 1999 as employee number 20 -- but she was a…
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