Silicon Valley to add beauty executives

Summary: Facebook female chief operating Burchelli Sandberg. Julie Larsengrin, head of Microsoft's Windows Department. Marisa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive and director of the company's board. Windows 8 first designer Julie Larsengrin takes over Windows department Silicon Valley again

"Facebook" female chief operating officer Snow Lie Sandberg.

Zhu Li Larsen Green, head of Microsoft's Windows Department.

Marissa, Yahoo's chief executive and director of the company's board.

Windows 8 First designer Zhu Li Larsen Green takes over Windows department Silicon Valley and adds beauty executives

Microsoft announced 12th that Microsoft Windows CEO Stephen Sinnowski, WINDOWS8 chief architect Zhu Li Larsen Green, will take over the Windows Department, following the "Facebook" Chief operating officer Snow Lie Sandberg, Yahoo CEO Marissa , Silicon Valley has one more beauty executive.

In response to the apparent increase in the number of women executives in Silicon Valley, the media pointed to the popularity of female executives for changing the weakness of the IT industry, the increasing number of female Internet users and the ability of women to innovate.

Zhu Li Larsen Green

Win 8 First Designer

Green is the lead designer for Win 7 and win 8, responsible for project management, user interface design, etc. In the future, she will co-ordinate all the development projects for Windows and Windows Live.

Green was born in Washington, the birthplace of Microsoft, and was always good at school. Began studying computer science at the University of Western Washington, and later switched to business management, focusing on management and information systems and microcomputers.

She has submitted a job application to Microsoft, but was rejected, then reapply to succeed, in 1993, formally joined Microsoft. Since 2003, Greene has led the office's "radical reform" and won the Technical Leadership Award. In the win 8 system, Julie also worked as chief designer and eventually participated in the final release of the system.

Snow Lie Sandberg

The Queen of Facebook.

At the end of June this year, the "Facebook" female chief operating officer Snow Lie Sandberg joined the board of Directors, became the board's first female member, is "Facebook" founder Mark Zackerberg after the undisputed number second figure.

In the High-tech and media sectors, Sandberg has been favored, ranking among the top executives of many companies.

In "Facebook," the "Brothers Club", the married and already two children of the mother of Sandberg is not smooth sailing, in addition to the job by Zuckerberg in public criticism of his skin, Sandberg also suffered from netizens questioned. "Many netizens say I am a liar and will ruin the future of Facebook," she says. I've been crying my nose. But in the end, I realized that the best and only response was to keep doing my job and doing it well. ”

Marissa

Google jumps to Yahoo

Mayer joined Yahoo this July to become Yahoo's chief executive and director of the company's board of directors. Yahoo co-founder Wei Ferrow praised her for "visionary leaders" and technology development in the field of user experience and product design, one of Silicon Valley's most exciting strategists.

Mayer joined Google in 1999, Google's 20th employee and first female engineer, leading the development of Google's top products, including the development of flagship search products and iconic home pages.

Ms. Mayer's best known move was to provide a free meal for all the company's staff and allot high-end smartphones and new laptops, such as iphones and Android, to aggressively overhaul Yahoo's corporate culture.

Beauty Executives in IT industry

Why more and more?

At the end of July this year, Zynga, the world's largest social gaming website operator, named Yahoo's former senior vice president, Ellen Siminov, as the company's first female director, and social networking Twitter recently released rumors that it was planning to include female directors as a top priority in the process of expanding the board.

Avoid male monopolies

Media reports say High-tech companies such as the Internet are recruiting and promoting women executives mainly to avoid the too-masculine flaws in corporate governance structures. Moreover, data show that companies with female directors on boards have a higher return on investment.

Secondly, the number and consumption characteristics of the Internet female users can not be neglected. Surveys show that female users prefer social and e-commerce, and that they have a strong spending power. Statistics show that more than 60% users of Facebook are women, and that some users have written to Facebook to state the importance of female users, "Facebook needs to be born with women." We are the most profitable client of Facebook. To boost participation and advertising revenue, Facebook needs to produce and design products that consider women's feelings. The user writes to.

Innovative ability is very strong

Finally, a new generation of women has an extremely strong ability to innovate. Some media have noted that in the recent mergers and acquisitions of the social networking companies, each of the merged company's founding team has a woman: "Apple" in February 2012, the 50 million-dollar purchase of mobile application search company Chomp, the latter's chief Technical Officer Cathy · Edwards was also co-founder of the company, and an online storage service provider, Dropbox, bought a company Cove to address SME Office collaboration and communication in February 2012, one of the co-founder of which was the first female engineer Rutch Sang of Facebook. These women founders created successful technology companies and were both development planners, design and engineering advocates in their respective companies.