An curved arrow pointing right. Marissa Mayer is the Queen of Silicon Valley now, but her road to success started in her hometown of Wausau, Wisconsin. Watch below what Mayer's life was like ...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer started out as a pre-med student at ... "After my freshman year, I went back to Wausau [her hometown in Wisconsin], and I realized that I was learning all the same things ...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will step down from her role with the company following Yahoo’s sale to Verizon, it was announced today. Mayer has been CEO of Yahoo since she moved from Google in 2012.