She may be a Oscar-winning actress with best-selling cookbooks and a popular lifestyle blog, but it seems Gywneth Paltrow is still not quite good enough for Yahoo's Marissa Mayer.
According to an article in the New York Times, the CEO 'balked' at the idea of hiring the Hollywood actress because she 'disapproved of the fact that Paltrow did not graduate college'.
The lengthy piece revealed that former Google executive Mayer, who had been drafted in to remake the once-great Yahoo, 'habitually asked deputies where they had attended college'.
And according to one executive, the fact that Paltrow did not even graduate college was the major stumbling block to her being hired as a contributing editor for Yahoo Food.
The decision has been questioned by critics who label Mayer as 'a higher education snob' and point out that internet greats Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Reed, Harvard, and Harvard respectively.
source MAILONLINE
According to an article in the New York Times, the CEO 'balked' at the idea of hiring the Hollywood actress because she 'disapproved of the fact that Paltrow did not graduate college'.
The lengthy piece revealed that former Google executive Mayer, who had been drafted in to remake the once-great Yahoo, 'habitually asked deputies where they had attended college'.
And according to one executive, the fact that Paltrow did not even graduate college was the major stumbling block to her being hired as a contributing editor for Yahoo Food.
The decision has been questioned by critics who label Mayer as 'a higher education snob' and point out that internet greats Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Reed, Harvard, and Harvard respectively.
source MAILONLINE
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