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Eric Hippeau: Yahoo must sell itself to better management
“No, Yahoo is not game over, and Yahoo needs, needs probably needs to sell itself to people who can manage it better and Yahoo has an enormous amount of assets namely, it's taken Alibaba, it's taken Yahoo Japan, and its own its own own and operated website whic…”
Eric Hippeau predicts drone racing will become as popular as video games
“We believe that drones are going to have the same popularity that video games and that, that people are going to want to raise them, people are going to develop themselves as professional or semi-professional pilots that it's a very visual because these drones…”
Hippeau: Seed-stage execution follows well-known steps with little mystery
“What they have to do are well-known steps. There's no, there's not a lot of mystery in what needs to be done.”
Hippeau: Early venture timing loses money, late timing yields me-too companies
“Because if you invest too early it's not gonna, the market's not gonna develop, and you, you'll lose all your money, and if you invest too late, you're gonna be investing in some sort of a me-too company.”
Hippeau: Successful pitches focus on core concepts, not data overload
“So the very best pitches to me are pitches that are relatively simple, you know, go right to the point. Don't try to shower you with too much data. You can always put the data in the appendix because ultimately it's not going to be about the data. Ultimately i…”
Hippeau: Digital scale gives long-form journalism a larger audience than print
“Today because of the sheer size of the audience being, you know, multiply, Bigger than it was in the past. You will, if you want to do long-form journalism, as such as we do on BuzzFeed, and we did some at the African Post as well, you, by default, you're goin…”
Eric Hippeau: Long-form journalism will never be the most popular media format
“It's never going to be the most popular form of journalism, because it was never the most popular form of journalism.”
Hippeau: BuzzFeed's proprietary technology drives its content virality and popularity
“He has benefited from the fact that he's built an enormous amount of technology that allows him to then develop the kind of content that becomes the most popular.”
SoftBank Owned a Third of Yahoo at Its IPO
“SoftBank then ended up owning, as you'll recall a third of Yahoo at the IPO.”
Lerer Hippeau's first fund was $8.5 million
“Our first fund was very, very small. It was eight and a half million dollars.”