Dive summary:
- Newly appointed CEO Marissa Mayer, who received a pay package that may be in excess of $60 million, sent an internal memo to employees that was leaked to Kara Swisher at All Things D.
- Mayer says that she is sensitive to all the change that the company has been through over the past few months, and wants to "develop a more informed perspective before making strategy or direction changes."
- She bragged about the talent pool at Yahoo!, letting people know that the work they are doing is important. She urged employees to "Keep moving."
- The memo ends with thanks to interim-CEO Ross Levinsohn, and invites people to swing by her office to say hello.
From the article:
While I might abandon my internal memo-quest at Yahoo at some point soon, I wanted to make sure to post the very first one from newly installed — and extraordinarily well-paid — CEO Marissa Mayer.
“You are doing important work — please don’t stop,” the former Google exec wrote to her new flock of employees, in a missive sent yesterday. “Yes, keep moving!”