Google at 15: Hiring Marisa Mayer, Employee #20

Sept. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Heather Cairns, Google's fourth employee and Ben Legg, CEO at Adknowledge and former COO of Google Europe recall the hiring of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer as Google's 20th employee, the company's policy on dating between employees and what threat, if any, Facebook poses to Google. They speak on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West."

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