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Assertion Partly supported
Lanzone: Yahoo reaches 900M MAUs with top ranks across major verticals
“Yahoo is a very different situation. It legitimately has nine hundred million users a month. And those users are coming, you know, in email, we're number two to Gmail. In Yahoo Finance, we're number one by a mile. Yahoo Sports is number two to ESPN. You know, …”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 38:55 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Contradicted
Lanzone: Over 10% of US marriages originate from Tinder
“It's over 10% of all marriages come from Tinder, which is different than its reputation, and I've seen it.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 54:53 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Lanzone: Ask Jeeves was called the 'Apple of search' during turnaround
“We were later called the apple of search, believe it or not, by people in the search industry and just being really proud of that turnaround and what we were able to accomplish there.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 4:33 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Partly supported
Lanzone: Ask Jeeves valuation fell from $10 billion to $100 million
“When I got to ask, there were, it was post nine, 11, there were rolling blackouts in California. People were taking sodas from the machine home at night. They had gone from, you know, a ten billion dollar valuation to a hundred million dollar valuation.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 26:09 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Lanzone: First startup raised $50M before crashing and selling to Ask Jeeves
“We raised fifty million dollars. We're going to go public. And then we crashed like you wouldn't believe with the crash. We sold what was left to ask Jeeves which is pretty much the only company that wanted us.”
Jim Lanzone Jul 29, 2022 ▶ 1:29 Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Yahoo Turnaround Plan | 20VC #911 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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