Jim Lanzone

10 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 29, 2022 by Jim Lanzone · across every show →

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Jul 29, 2022 negative
Insight
Lanzone: Standard interview questions signal interviewers don't know what they want
“So I think people hide behind standard interview questions if they don't really know what they're looking for.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 10:03 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 29, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lanzone: Tinder neglected consumer-facing feature innovation before his arrival
“Tinder hadn't evolved in quite a long time on the consumer front. They'd done a lot on the business model front. But they had not, you know, you being a big subscriber, but on the consumer feature side, not a ton.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 16:29 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 29, 2022
Insight
Lanzone: High-performing teams require domain expertise, EQ, ambition, and passion
“And I really, when I'm hiring people, I really hire for four things. The first is I really want domain experts, right? I do not want people who are faking it till they make it. And if you are an expert, you tend to be able to understand what one looks like. An…”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 7:58 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 29, 2022 positive
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Lanzone: Company values are defined by hires and tolerated behavior
“I truly believe your company values are the people you hire. Like that is 90% of it. It's also, you know, what you accept and condone, what you criticize and don't allow it's, it is.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 12:20 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 29, 2022
Disclosure
Lanzone offered to return venture capital after 2008 financial crash
“I accepted money and the crash of 2008 happened two weeks later. I offered to give the money back. And they said, no, just go ahead because some of the best companies can be created in times like this.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 26:38 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 29, 2022
Insight
Lanzone: Rigidly avoiding doubt prevents leaders from taking enough risks
“I think people who are Can, ah, you know, or go by that. They just won't take risk often enough. And I actually think doubt can inform risk.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 14:40 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 29, 2022 negative
Disclosure
Lanzone: Startup with 10k users demanded $150M Yahoo acquisition
“We just came through this period where I swear to God, a company with only 10,000 registered users wanted me to pay one hundred and fifty million dollars for them. A company with 79,000 users want someone to pay five hundred million dollars for them.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 33:05 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 29, 2022
Insight
Lanzone: Visionary prototype videos are the easiest tool to unblock velocity
“And so once you have that, it's really easy to get the company unblocked and moving.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 16:53 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 29, 2022
Assertion Supported
Lanzone: First startup raised $50M before crashing and selling to Ask Jeeves
“We raised fifty million dollars. We're going to go public. And then we crashed like you wouldn't believe with the crash. We sold what was left to ask Jeeves which is pretty much the only company that wanted us.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 1:29 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 29, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Lanzone: Twitter was my 'white whale' company that got away
“For a long time, you know, Twitter was that company for me. It's always been my white whale. I love the product, but I always felt it could have been a lot more than it was. And so I've, I always, you know, look side-eye at Twitter as the one that, that got aw…”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 52:11 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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