Yahoo, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Yahoo comes up
20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
- ▶ 3:44 Stewart Butterfield Flickr got bought by Yahoo, spent three years at Yahoo, and then most of that original Flickr team got back together to start 2 times in the scene
20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity
- ▶ 25:23 George Zachary You know, if I was to look back at the early part of my career, for example, people wouldn't believe this, but Yahoo was just a list of restaurants and places to go.
20VC: Mark Cuban on His Relationship To Wealth and Risk, Why Coming Out of The Pandemic Will Be The Best Time In The History of Mankind To Start A Business & Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Like Old Hollywood
- ▶ 0:31 Harry Stebbings In just four short years, Broadcast.com, then Audionet, was sold to Yahoo for 5.6 billion dollars.
20VC: True Ventures' Toni Schneider on How Being CEO @ Automattic (Wordpress) Made Him A Better Investor, The Biggest Lessons from Automattic on Running Successful Remote Teams and The Right Way For Investors To Show Founders They Have Their Support (Note
- ▶ 0:41 Harry Stebbings Before that, he was a VP at Yahoo, post their acquisition of the company he was CEO at, OddPost.
- ▶ 0:46 Harry Stebbings Much of their work formed the basis for Yahoo Mail.
- ▶ 3:53 Tony Schneider And then in 2005, I was working at Yahoo when Phil Black and John Callahan decided to start True Ventures.
20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- ▶ 5:59 Ashton Kutcher And she was working for Mike Arrington and she'd worked at Yahoo before.
20VC: Moxxie Ventures' Katie Stanton on What It Takes To Raise A First Time Fund As A Solo GP, The Entrance of Multi-Stage Funds Into Seed Rounds and The Inverse Relationship of Those That Fund Diverse Managers and Those That Say They Do
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings Katie also served in numerous executive operating roles at Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Color, and also served in the Obama White House and State Department, and if that wasn't enough, Katie's also on the board of Vivendi, and previously…
- ▶ 4:29 Katie Stanton And I remember using Yahoo, one of the earliest iterations of Yahoo. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:37 Katie Stanton And at the time they just launched a version of Yahoo finance.