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How Whatnot's Live Shopping Beats Traditional E-Commerce
- ▶ 2:03 Grant LaFontaine Down sort of the street from where I was living, it was like a little, like, lake and hangout area, and my, me and my friend used to go there, and we'd like, trade Pokemon cards, and I'd try and hustle people on, like, getting the better…
“Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
- ▶ 26:01 Alex Rampell I think, and again, like that company unfortunately went to zero, or actually Yahoo bought that a long time ago.
Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
- ▶ 11:05 Ben Horowitz Oh, if you're Sequoia, you had invested in Apple, and Cisco, and Yahoo, and Google, and so it's really hard to make up that ground if you're starting in 2009.
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 2:15 Alex Rampell Was it the banner ad on Yahoo?
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 40:22 Amjad Masad They never like looked at Google and then Yahoo or like very few people do it.
Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- ▶ 11:40 Vishal Misra It had more hits than Yahoo.
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 55:38 Steven Sinofsky But, but don't discount, you know, like, the early leaders of search were, like, Excite and Yahoo, and so there's, like, this is just to not discourage people from thinking.
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 18:55 Alex Rampell That eventually became part of Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
AI Content and the War for Your Attention
- ▶ 37:41 Antonio García Martínez There's a paper from Yahoo research and like
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 1:47 Marc Andreessen Uh, Yahoo bought, um, what was it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:15 Marc Andreessen Um, but, um, yeah, no, Yahoo at the time, I remember Yahoo at the time, Yahoo was doing a turnaround under, under Terry Semel at the time. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:27 unnamed speaker It, it's fascinating to imagine sort of, ah, alternative tech history, like, what if Yahoo had actually been able to, to buy, buy Facebook. 4 times in the scene
What Comes After Mobile? Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on AI and Consumer Tech
- ▶ 22:18 Andrew Bosworth It was like Yahoo and it was like links and who like, you know, getting major sources of traffic to link to you was the game.
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 10:36 Zeno Rocha Uh, so for an email to render the same on Outlook and Gmail and Yahoo Mail, you still have a lot of challenges.
Zach Perret (Plaid) & Simon Khalaf (Marqeta): New Applications in Fintech
- ▶ 16:01 Simon Khalaf I look at it, and it's Yahoo, and it's 1996, in which the competition is the New York Times. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Andrew Chen Talk Creative Computers
- ▶ 20:35 Marc Andreessen Well, my favorite example is Facebook got just tons of, you know, it's just like this is the most trivial, stupid, useless, you know, thing that doesn't matter, you know, Facebook, there was almost a deal for Facebook to get bought by… 3 times in the scene
The Future of AI Is Amazing
- ▶ 9:23 Martin Casado Like we couldn't have predicted Google and we couldn't have predicted Yahoo, but we knew it was going to be something.
Inside AI Town: What AI Can Teach Us About Being Human
- ▶ 10:49 Martin Casado Like, you couldn't have predicted Yahoo.
The Economic Case for Generative AI with a16z's Martin Casado
- ▶ 13:24 Martin Casado Nobody predicted Yahoo.
More Than a Game: Why Are We Obsessed With Sports?
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 12:56 Salim Ismail And you look back on the internet, Yahoo, BlackBerry, Nokia all failed to become platforms, right?
Two-Sided Networks in Healthcare - a Founder's Playbook
- ▶ 25:57 Doug Hirsch Like I was at Facebook and Yahoo where time spent was like the, the God metric.
Data Security and the Rise of Crypto
- ▶ 13:46 Diogo Mónica Just last month, Yahoo announced they're shutting down Yahoo Groups.
- ▶ 13:46 Diogo Mónica Just last month, Yahoo announced they're shutting down Yahoo Groups. 2 times in the scene
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 4:16 Ken Kocienda Uh, so Mosaic, uh, when, uh, and, and the professor, oddly enough, loaded up, you know, one of the few websites, comparatively, that was available that, Yahoo, when it was text only.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 6:31 Chris Dixon And then there was sort of this really kind of unlikely alternative, which was this, at the time, pretty crappy experience in Mosaic and, you know, homebrew websites and Yahoo, and you talk about this, you know, in the book, but like, and…
- ▶ 10:15 Chris Dixon And then you talk about a bunch of interesting companies, obviously sort of the iconic companies, I guess, Netscape, Yahoo, Google, eBay, Amazon.
- ▶ 10:32 Chris Dixon You know, Yahoo, of course, had its sort of fall and was kind of replaced by Google.
- ▶ 12:12 Brian McCullough Pierre Omidyar did not want to have to settle the disputes between users, so he just created a system out of laziness that was like, all right, you can accrue reputation, and if you don't defend that reputation, it's going to harm you, and…
- ▶ 36:09 Brian McCullough So I'm almost asking you, like, I mean, it was Yahoo who was trying a little bit, yeah.
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 10:37 John Hennessy I mean, when both Yahoo and Google left the Stanford labs, they were pretty good pieces of software.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 32:20 Chris Dixon This is, you know, I think it was, this is well after Yahoo and Netscape and things like this, and the word, the web, did not appear in the book, right?
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
a16z Podcast | The Strategies and Tactics of Big
- ▶ 22:34 Steven Sinofsky Like, and especially, in fact, search has made this such an interesting thing, because if you find everything by search, and this was the difference between Google and Yahoo, with Yahoo was a hierarchy, and you had to enter Yahoo from the…
- ▶ 25:58 Benedict Evans They saw what happened to, to Yahoo and to AOL and to MySpace.
a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
- ▶ 21:17 Jeff Jordan Amazon launched their auction competitor on, during the, either the IPO and the secondary and Yahoo launched their auction competitor on the other one.
a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- ▶ 3:10 Chris Dixon So that's like Amazon, Yahoo.
a16z Podcast | Culture and/of Design
- ▶ 0:11 Sonal Chokshi He worked at Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:01 Luke Wroblewski We had, I used to work at eBay before I worked at Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Movement of Money
- ▶ 1:52 Patrick Collison And so that's what you see in Yahoo and Google and Facebook and, and, and so forth.
a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 23:31 Jeff Jordan It's not happening on the small scale, you have to, you know, you got to figure out how do you get product market fit, and that's where if you're thinking of going to work at Yahoo, you know, for a steady paycheck, you know, if you can't…
a16z Podcast | Teams, Trust, and Object Lessons
- ▶ 19:51 Dick Costolo She's like, the bad news is Yahoo said, my daughter's 17 now, 16 at the time, 15 at the time.
- ▶ 19:57 Dick Costolo She sends me this text and says, the bad news is, Yahoo Finance says you're one of the five worst CEOs of 2014.
a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
- ▶ 20:50 Jeff Jordan And, you know, one time when it stopped, uh, Mark Zuckerberg, who's the, the founder there, um, uh, had an offer from Yahoo to buy the company at a billion dollars.
a16z Podcast | Things Come Together -- Truths about Tech in Africa
- ▶ 17:46 Alan Knott Craig You need to have, you need to have like a landing page from AOL, Yahoo saying, this is the internet, click here for, you know, something that's useful.
a16z Podcast | Nobody Discusses Work Software Outside of Work -- and Then There’s Slack
- ▶ 27:40 Stuart Butterfield Chi Lu, who's one of the three SEPs I worked with for a long time at Yahoo, and he's an incredible hard worker and a genius.
a16z Podcast | Telepresence and Tech for a Distributed Workforce
- ▶ 0:32 Sonal Chokshi He was also the co-founder of eGroups, which is now Yahoo Groups, and later was the founder of Willow Garage.
- ▶ 30:58 Craig Walker No one, like when I was at Yahoo, they put in a new PBX and they handed us like a hundred page manual on how to use it.
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 4:29 Reshma Sohoni I mean, there's multiple coming out of the Googles, Yahoo here, and, and so on.
a16z Podcast | London Calling for Tech Done in a Different Way
- ▶ 19:41 Michael Copeland Tom Coates, for those of you who don't know, he was at Yahoo for a long time and sort of ran their skunkworks lab, and he's got a blog called, uh.
a16z Podcast | Fintech from the World's Financial Capital -- London
- ▶ 16:27 Alex Rampell And then, of course, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, the big incumbent mail providers did not make it easy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:54 Alex Rampell Add two zeros to the end of the 10 megabytes, and even if Yahoo wanted to do that, um, well, A, Yahoo had a revenue stream that was required, I mean, you had to pay 20 bucks a year to get Yahoo Mail 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
- ▶ 15:45 Benedict Evans Banner ads are like Yahoo.
- ▶ 19:55 Chris Dixon Um, and that's why Yahoo actually outsourced their search to, um,
a16z Podcast | How Innovation Ecosystems Grow Around the Globe
- ▶ 12:56 Chris Schroeder I, I had the, the, the man who was the founder, effectively, of the Yahoo of the Middle East, who was a company called Maktoub, which Yahoo, in fact, bought for a 160 or a 170, seventy million dollars about five years ago. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- ▶ 9:54 Chris Schroeder I had a wonderful entrepreneur, uh, who built what was effectively the Yahoo of the Middle East called Mach two, which got bought by Yahoo for almost two hundred million dollars. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev
- ▶ 6:33 James Loftus Yeah, and by and large, we would always have, uh, both, both at Google and Yahoo, we would have people sign NDAs when they came in, and, and quite frankly, it's, it's important, I think, as the person on the corporate development team,…
- ▶ 10:37 James Loftus And so, you know, I think, you know, knowing the corporate development team at Google, knowing the corporate development team at Yahoo, probably very much so the corporate development team at Oracle, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:29 Sonal Chokshi And then for you guys coming out of Google, Yahoo, and Oracle, just as examples, um, how did you guys sort of address, like, how did you guys
- ▶ 14:57 James Loftus or it's mobile apps for Yahoo.
a16z Podcast | Apple Gets Its Music Streaming and Gives News Another Try
- ▶ 16:17 Benedict Evans The question is, I mean, Marc Andreessen made this kind of joke in relation to, um, Twitter the other day, that it's like there's an inexorable law that every website beyond a certain scale tries to turn into the Yahoo homepage. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
- ▶ 10:03 Nathaniel Popper Um, the internet, and obviously we now have this with Google and Yahoo.
a16z Podcast | Verizon Plus AOL -- Why? -- The Short Answer is Mobile
- ▶ 9:18 Chris Dixon Yeah, so like the first wave, I think it was, there was DoubleClick, which Google bought, and then immediately, uh, Yahoo bought Right Media for, you know, approaching a billion, um, and then there, I think there was a third one at the… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
- ▶ 44:36 Diane Greene Although I have to say Brad Smith and Yahoo, you know, when, when he was, 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Marketplace Rules
- ▶ 8:54 Jeff Jordan And so that got put to the test because Amazon and Yahoo launch auction businesses early in eBay's life and they went for free.
a16z Podcast | Tools for How We Work Today
- ▶ 18:59 Steven Sinofsky In fact, Yahoo sort of lost that battle over having a hierarchy.
a16z Podcast | If Coding is the New Literacy, How Can More People Code?
- ▶ 0:24 Susan Mernit I'm a former Yahoo, Netscape, and AOL product development executive, and when I moved to Oakland, I started an organization called Hack the Hood that teaches coding and tech skills to low-income young people of color.
- ▶ 5:12 Susan Mernit Google buses and the Yahoo buses would go through the neighborhood, and they felt so shut off and so alienated because they were.
a16z Podcast | Security’s Wakeup Call
- ▶ 0:05 John Jack Ash Carter, a Deputy, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Alex Stamos, who's the CISO of Yahoo.
- ▶ 21:43 Alex Stamos In real time to be able to say, you know, this, this Android phone that has malware on it is pretending to be other users on Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo at the same time.
a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
- ▶ 15:11 Chris Dixon So Coinbase is big enough now that a lot of the transactions flow internally, and they can, they can make those, they basically waive those fees, as an example, and I think you could imagine, I think it might, maybe like email, like you'll…
- ▶ 23:06 Chris Dixon So same thing with the internet, like, they built the browser, they built the web server, where's the Yahoo, where's the Amazon, where's the Google?
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 13:18 Marc Andreessen Um, and then Yahoo blew up, and Intel blew up, and like all these big technology companies, uh, blew up.
a16z Podcast | The Future Of Television
- ▶ 6:24 Michael Copeland Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:09 Zal Bilimoria I mean, Yahoo just, I think today or yesterday announced that they are looking at purchasing the rights of four television shows, and, you know, as, you know, Yahoo and Marissa Mayer are trying to figure out how to become, you know, a… 6 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
- ▶ 0:20 Benedict Evans When you look at an app store today, it's like looking at Yahoo in 95.
a16z Podcast | Apple and Google Won the Mobile OS War, But a New War Has Already Begun
- ▶ 21:42 Benedict Evans That's to say an app store now looks a lot like, um, it looks a lot like Yahoo, right, two years ago. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:55 Michael Copeland So, so it sounds like what you're saying in some ways, and this relates to Yahoo, is that, you know, this war is over. 2 times in the scene
Crypto and Decentralization: Building Blocks
- ▶ 31:29 Chris Dixon This is, you know, I think it was, this is well after Yahoo and Netscape and things like this, and the word, the web, did not appear in the book, right?
The World Through an API
- ▶ 0:21 Martin Casado I remember the late nineties, you had kind of a lot of the dot-com companies like Yahoo, early 2000, you know, more kind of online marketplaces like Ebay's, and then you had, you know,
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
- ▶ 4:02 Benedict Evans They saw Yahoo and MySpace fail.
Marketplaces
- ▶ 2:05 Jeff Jordan When I first joined two of the most powerful, um, internet companies were Amazon and Yahoo.
- ▶ 9:36 Jeff Jordan Japan, you had Rakuten, and as well as Yahoo!