Mayer was one of a small number of high-profile women in the tech industry, going from Stanford to Google to CEO of Yahoo; Vogue estimated her net worth at $300m. I felt like I was supposed to find her arc inspiring, and yet whatever women-in-tech solidarity I might have had was overshadowed by our $300m difference in net worth. That seemed like an unfathomable amount of money to me, regardless of how hard she might have worked, and it also didn’t feel right from the perspective of overall economic efficiency.
