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Uber built its initial Atlanta driver supply by cold-calling Yelp listings
“When we went into the initial market, we got a Yelp list of all the drivers in the city and sort of like called through and trying to get them to sign up with Uber and, you know, got our initial list of drivers that way and launched a few weeks later with some…”
Wilkinson: Google Maps blew Yelp out of the water using Android
“Turns out with Google, having Android and Google Maps, they can just ask every single person on earth how the restaurant was that they went to last night, because they know that they'd visited it via Google Maps, and suddenly Google Maps has better data and bl…”
Lemkin: Yelp's valuation is down 47% this year to $1.2 billion
“Yelp's down to 1.2 billion dollar valuation. I mean, Jeremy's young, but it's been what? 20 something years, right? And it's down 47% this year to almost just over a billion.”
Yelp sold Eat24 to Grubhub for double its acquisition price
“Now we bought a company called eat 24 is a food delivery startup. And so I kind of got dropped in to be had a product for that subsidiary helped grow that business. This wasn't our original intent, but we actually sold it to Grubhub just about two years later …”