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 ...

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. Take a look at what Mayer's life was all ...

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 ...

She left Wisconsin for Stanford, where she got both her bachelor's and master's degrees in symbolic systems. She was a stand-out in her computer science classes and received a whopping 14 job ...