{"id":8314,"date":"2013-08-24T17:13:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T16:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8314"},"modified":"2013-08-24T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T16:13:25","slug":"a-little-marissa-mayer-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/08\/a-little-marissa-mayer-for-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"A little Marissa Mayer for the weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some fascinating reading for the weekend from Business Insider, as Nicholas Carlson writes about Marissa Mayer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Friday before she came on, the parking lots would be empty till 10 a.m. and would be empty again after 4 p.m. That happened day after day after day for seven months in a row. Marissa comes, the next week, the parking lots are full at 8 a.m. and people are still there at 6:30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe changes that she brought \u2014 making food free, focusing on quality, shutting some things down, being open and honest during the Friday FYI meetings \u2014 all brought belief back for a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf she hadn\u2019t come in, all the smart people would have left.\u00a0And that would have been the end of Yahoo.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some fascinating reading for the weekend from Business Insider, as Nicholas Carlson writes about Marissa Mayer. \u201cThe Friday before she came on, the parking lots would be empty till 10 a.m. and would be empty again after 4 p.m. That happened day after day after day for seven months in a row. Marissa comes, the next week, the parking lots are full at 8 a.m. and people are still there at 6:30. \u201cThe changes that she brought \u2014 making food free, focusing on quality, shutting some things down, being open and honest during the Friday FYI meetings \u2014 all brought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,111,52],"tags":[3269,3832,4794,1180],"class_list":["post-8314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-web-20","category-web-2point0","tag-biography","tag-ceo","tag-marissa-mayer","tag-profile","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2a6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}