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She really isn't. Her efforts at Google, especially as time went on, were increasingly mediocre, and at Yahoo she's proven to be little different.

What she has going in her favor is that Yahoo was mismanaged to an utterly stunning degree before her time. I don't doubt that a more sensible approach is going to do net-good things for them.

But there's just no way she's going to be included in the same chapter of history as the other names given.

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Maybe not the same chapter, but at least the same font size.

I think she's going to go down as the first female major player in the Big Tech realm -- which is not to disparage Meg Whitman or Carly Fiorina, but they haven't achieved the same level of household recognition that Marissa has.

(I'm not really familiar with her goings-on at Google, but everything she's done at Yahoo seems incredibly positive. Like you said, though, that could just be a 'going from awful to merely okay' effect.)

I wouldn't call an end to remote work incredibly positive.

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