Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google

I think he was pursuing a systems or theory-based Ph.D. at Stanford when he dropped out to help start Google with Larry and Sergey. So, Google’s chance of success was a hundred times better than any other startup I applied to—but still a one in fifty shot. A lot of people feel that Google’s success came overnight, but that’s not the way it felt for me on the inside.

Source: triplebyte.com