Marissa Mayer's WASPy roots are showing
In an epic post, Google VP Marissa Mayer does some work to earn her hundreds of millions of dollars in equity by clarifying statements made earlier in a Los Angeles Times interview — Google has solved 90 percent of the search equation in the first ten years, but the remaining ten percent will take nine times as much effort. The post is full of the sort of details that flit about in Mayer's mind and amongst her social circle. Most telling? She didn't know the word "goy," a word from Hebrew for gentiles or non-Jews. Granted, I doubt she ran into many Hebrew or Yiddish speakers growing up in Wausau, Wis. or shopping at the JC Penney in Yankton, S.D. on Saturday. (Photo by Andrew Mager)