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Nicholas Carlson writes for Business Insider. His book Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!\xa0came out this week.\n\n\u201cTo me people are what\u2019s really interesting. Marissa Mayer is a once in a lifetime subject. She\u2019s full of contradictions. \u2026 There are a million business stories, but if you don\u2019t have that character at the center then you\u2019re lost.\u201d\n\nThanks to TinyLetter, Lynda and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\nShow Notes:\n@nichcarlson\nCarlson on Longform\n[6:00] Longform Podcast #81: Kevin Roose\n[13:00] "What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs" (New York Times Magazine \u2022 Dec 2014)\n[16:00] "Viacom Takes Google, YouTube Fight to Court" (InternetNews.com \u2022 Mar 2007)\n[18:00] Disney War (James B. Stewart \u2022 Simon & Schuster \u2022 2005)\n[19:00] Longform Podcast #19: Choire Sicha\n[23:00] Longform Podcast #88: Sam Biddle\n[23:00] Carlson\u2019s archive on Valleywag\n[33:00] "Google Gave Employees This Smartwatch As A Holiday Gift, And Some Of Them Are Whining About It" (Business Insider \u2022 Dec 2014)\n[34:00] Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! (Twelve \u2022 2015)\n[38:00] Googled: The End of the World As We Know It (Ken Auletta \u2022 Penguin Press \u2022 2008)\n[48:00] "The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired An Employee In Front Of 1,000 Coworkers" (Business Insider \u2022 Nov 2013)\n[48:00] "This Man Was Supposed To Become Steve Jobs 2.0 \u2014 Here\u2019s What Happened Instead" (Business Insider \u2022 Nov 2014)\n[54:00] "The Untold Story Of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback" (Business Insider \u2022 Apr 2014)\n[1:01:00] "Hacks Into Hackers" (The New York Times \u2022 Sep 2010)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices