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Marissa Mayer's Contradictory Personality Detailed In Unofficial Biography (VIDEO)

WATCH: Marissa Mayer's Contradictory Personality

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's personality type presents an odd dichotomy. On one hand, she is constantly in the press, appearing in a glamorous fashion shoot for Vogue magazine. On the other, she's described herself as painfully shy.

Nicholas Carlson, a Business Insider reporter who wrote an extensive unofficial biography of Mayer, spoke with HuffPost Live's Dena Takruri about how Mayer's personality affects her business identity.

Many of Mayer's employees are forced to reconcile the image of their boss in the national media and the person they actually work with, Carlson said. For example, when she took over for Yahoo's interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, employees who had been hired by Levinsohn expected Mayer's first meeting to include a diplomatic speech about moving past his tenure, but instead "she just skipped past all the pleasantries," Carlson said.

"She's got a mission and she's got work to do, and she's like, 'Let's get there, and I don't really need to sit here and try to connect it for you,' " he said. "There's a different kind of relation -- relating to people one-on-one, looking people in the eye and talking with them and sort of trying to see how they feel, which I don't think is a strength of hers, versus talking to a reporter or getting a picture taken."

See the entire interview about Marissa Mayer at HuffPost Live HERE.

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Before You Go

1
Advice To Job Hunting Women
"Find something you're passionate about and just love. Passion is really gender-neutralizing," Marissa Mayer said on Martha Stewart's "Women with Vision" television series in 2011.
2
The Pie 'Isn't Big Enough'
"Right now is a great time to be a woman in tech, but there's not enough women in tech," Mayer told a CES2012 panel hosted by CNET. "[I] worry a lot of times the conversation gets really focused on what percentage of the pie is women. And the truth is, the pie isn't big enough. We're not producing enough computer scientist. We're not producing enough product designers. We need a lot more people to keep up with all of these gadgets, all of this technology, all these possibilities."Mayer also commented on the stereotypical culture within the tech world: "There's all kinds of different women who do this. You can wear ruffles, you can be a jock, and you still be a great computer scientist or a great technologist, or a great product designer."
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Tangible Technology
"There's just huge growth and opportunity. [T]he fact that the technology is now so tangible in our everyday lives, I think, will inspire a lot more women to go into technology -- and I'm really heartened by that," Mayer said for the MAKERS "Women in Tech" interview series in 2012.
4
Internet Empowered
"I consider myself incredibly lucky to be present in a moment in time when this wonderful and powerful medium, the internet, is empowering geeks -- and especially female geeks -- to express and pursue their passions," Meyer said in a 2012 acceptance speech at the Celebrating Change gala. She had just won the International Museum of Women's first-ever Innovator Award.
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Geekin' Out
"People ask me all the time, 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a women at Google; I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great," she said in an interview for CNN's "Leading Women" series in 2012.
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