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Jeff Jordan: Amazon and Yahoo's free auctions failed against eBay
“Amazon and Yahoo launch auction businesses early in eBay's life and they went for free. So every seller in the world said, I'll list, list my site there. It didn't work cause they hadn't, they couldn't get the buyers to show up there. So eBay, even though we w…”
Andreessen: Netscape Almost Acquired Yahoo for $3M–$5M
“Netscape, we almost bought Yahoo. There was like a bid ass spread between like 3,000,005 million dollars.”
Ismail: Tech winners like Apple and Google succeeded by becoming platforms
“Yahoo, BlackBerry, Nokia all failed to become platforms, right? Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon all successfully became platforms, and that business model basically carries you through because now you wire yourself into the infrastructure.”
Andreessen: Yahoo Almost Bought Google Early On at Low Price
“Yahoo almost bought Google. And there was a very, you know low price deal at the time.”
Dixon: Yahoo outsourced search because web portals were considered superior businesses
“Search was well known to be a bad business and portals was a good business. So you had to search was a way to get them into your portal where you then show like celebrity gossip and then banner ads. And that's why Yahoo actually outsourced their search to Inkt…”