<story><title>Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>NelsonMinar</author><text>I was also at Google when the AOL deal was signed and remember the decision and outcome quite differently. It was definitely a high risk deal, deliberately so, but in no way was it only &amp;quot;the best-case scenario had us breaking even&amp;quot;. Nor was it the case that &amp;quot;all of our models were wrong&amp;quot;. The product manager in charge of ads at the time had a clear understanding of exactly how the deal could be hugely profitable for Google because of the value of extra advertisers attracted to the Google platform thanks to the added AOL inventory. It was by no means a sure thing, but it was a likely outcome. Fortunately the decision makers believed him, they took the risk, and it paid off enormously.</text></comment>
<story><title>Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/blog/marissa-mayer-interview</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Harj</author><text>Marissa described possibly the most thorough and analytical job search process I&amp;#x27;ve heard from anyone, when she was talking about how she joined Google. I really liked her reflection on this in hindsight on how being overly analytical is dangerous and it&amp;#x27;s something I try to remind myself of when I&amp;#x27;m in danger of overthinking a decision:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I think this is a common thing that very analytical people trip themselves up with. They look at things as if there’s a right answer and a wrong answer when, the truth is, there’s often just good choices, and maybe a great choice in there.&amp;quot;</text></comment>