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Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer razes Bay Area townhomes for pool

Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer razes Bay Area townhomes for pool

After a year of back-and-forth, Silicon Valley tech executive Marissa Mayer has finally demolished three townhouses she bought next to her Palo Alto home to install a backyard pool. As first reported by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Mayer was legally able to raze the neighboring homes despite a California state law that required any home demolitions to be replaced with equivalent replacement “housing units.” That law was seemingly the reason Mayer’s request was denied… Source link

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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to tear down three homes to build a pool, records show

PALO ALTO — Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to add to her expansive estate by demolishing three adjacent homes she owns to build a swimming pool and pool house that could cost almost $1.6 million. But so far, Palo Alto planning officials have said no, pointing out that a pool doesn’t warrant removing homes from the city’s housing stock. Like other cities in the Bay Area, Palo Alto is under intense pressure by the state to produce thousands of additional homes to chip away at a… Source link

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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer gives Newsom $200K to defeat recall

Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers the keynote address at the first-ever Yahoo Mobile Developer’s Conference, in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2015. | AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has contributed $200,000 to beat back an effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom, deepening the governor’s substantial Silicon Valley support. The outlay from Mayer bolsters Newsom’s massive cash advantage over Republican rivals and further demonstrates the extensive… Source link

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Marissa Mayer, former CEO of Yahoo! launches “Sunshine Contacts” the app designed to manage contacts

This application, exclusively for iOS, manages users’ contacts efficiently in the background. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! November 21, 2020 3 min read This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. Sunshine , the startup of Marissa Mayer,… Source link

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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s new company launches Sunshine Contacts

Over the years, Mayer has been the subject of fascination. First, she was a rare female executive at the helm of a major tech company. Since then, people have been similarly interested in what would come after she departed Yahoo following its sale to Verizon in 2017. On Wednesday, Mayer announced that her secretive startup Lumi Labs — which she cofounded in 2018 with Enrique Muñoz Torres, who also worked at Yahoo and Google (GOOG) — has been rebranded as Sunshine and has its first product:… Source link

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