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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Yahoo comes up
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 3:45 Dennis Mortensen The very short story in my very short life, given I'm only 46, is one for where I did a few ventures back home in Denmark, then moved to England for a while, then moved to Budapest for a while, where we spent four years doing a analytics… 2 times in the scene
20VC: How The Best Founders Approach Bet The Company Decisions, How to Put Your Board to Work & How To Optimise Strategic Thinking on Boards with Maynard Webb, Founder @ Webb Investment Network & Everwise
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Previously, Maynard was chairman of the board of Yahoo, he was the CEO of LiveOps, and COO of eBay.
- ▶ 12:31 Maynard Webb It's great if you have, so board members are very independent, and I've been the chair, I was the chairman of Yahoo, right, and we had lots of different constituencies on the board, and they don't work for the chair, you know, the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:39 Maynard Webb Jeff Bonfort, who's a great executive at Yahoo, helps us at our offsites always talk about this, where he used to hate going to board meetings and he found a way to put them to work.
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
20VC: ClassPass CEO Fritz Lanman on Betting His Career Facebook Would Be A $10Bn Company, Lessons From Travis and Uber on Scaling A Global Marketplace & Whether Growth and Capital Efficiency Are Mutually Exclusive
- ▶ 14:20 Fritz Lanman We had quarterbacks with our corp dev counterparts, a bunch of the big pieces of the Yahoo deal that we tried to try to get done and ultimately got a variation done, and Facebook had come around, come to our desks, and we were made aware… 3 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 5:22 Glenn Solomon And you saw companies created like Yahoo and Google and Facebook more recently.
20VC: Why The Days of Spray and Pray at Seed Are Over, How To Compete In A World of Sequoia Seed Funds & Why Price Doesn't Matter with Dan Scheinman, Angel Investor @ Zoom & Arista Networks
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings West Coast's leading angel investors with a portfolio including the likes of Zoom, Tango.me, Tomfoolery, acquired by Yahoo, and Arista Networks, which obviously IPO'd, where he also sits on the board.
- ▶ 6:49 Dan Scheinman So, let's say five or six years ago, you had healthy competition to buy tech and talent, particularly with Facebook, Google, even Yahoo at that time when Marissa came there.
20VC: Why Follow-On Investments Are Always A Better Investment, Why Spray and Pray Investing Is Like The Stock Market & Why Startups Need A Board From Day One with Jerry Neumann
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings Now, Jerry is one of New York's leading angel investors, with a portfolio including the likes of The Trade Desk, which IPO'd in 2016, Datadog, and Flurry, which was acquired by Yahoo, just to name a few.
20VC: How Great VCs Handle Themselves In An M&A Process, Why M&A Has Become The Primary Method of Exit & How The Best M&A Teams Operationalise Their Process with James Loftus, Corporate Development Lead @ Square
- ▶ 3:46 James Loftus And when she went to Yahoo to be the CEO, I had an opportunity to move over to the corporate development side of Yahoo. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:21 Harry Stebbings Where would you stand on the thesis that companies are bought and not sold, having sat on both sides of the table, both with Andreessen and with Yahoo, Google, and now Square?
- ▶ 19:35 James Loftus This is true for Square, but it's true at Yahoo, and it's true at Google, too. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
- ▶ 5:03 Andy Pflaum Satish, Roland, and Ross, and Zimbra was a leading open source collaboration suite for enterprise customers, and that was also a successful company, and through some interesting M&A activities, it took me through a couple years, first at…
- ▶ 6:22 Harry Stebbings You also experienced it in the form of kind of incumbents like VMware and Yahoo, and now founding companies.
20VC: LinkedIn's Head of Corp Dev on Why and When Startups Should Start Relationship Building With Corp Dev, What The Structure of M&A Traditionally Looks Like & How To Mitigate The Biggest Risk of M&A, Integration Risk
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Before LinkedIn, Emily enjoyed roles such as Director of Digital Business Strategy and Operations at Warner Brothers, International Strategy and Ops at MySpace, and CorpDev Strategy at Yahoo.
- ▶ 3:11 Emilie Choi And I reached out to Yahoo about working in corp dev and strategy, and I got the role. 4 times in the scene