Laurie Bream keeps the gang in line, like Marissa Mayer at the helm of Yahoo.

Laurie Bream (Suzanne Cryer) is incredibly awkward as managing partner at Raviga Capital. She is cutthroat, speaks very mechanically, and places huge value on metrics. Sound familiar?

Nicholas Carlson, editor-in-chief of INSIDER and author of "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!" once described Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer as "cold and direct and impersonal. In a one-on-one she can't hold eye contact," just like Laurie when she delivers bad news.

The show's creator Mike Judge said the character was inspired by "these super-intelligent people who think faster than they can talk" and denied any correlation to Mayer.