Lanzone: Rigidly avoiding doubt prevents leaders from taking enough risks
Jim Lanzone · Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jul 29, 2022 · at 14:40
Jim Lanzone, CEO of Yahoo, responds to host Harry Stebbings asking whether he agrees with the management rule 'when there's doubt, there's no doubt'.
0:00 / 0:10exact quote · 10.4s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“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.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Jim Lanzone
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”