Yahoo
also referred to as: yahoo!
includes Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Japan, Yahoo Search
20 statements across 6 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 21, 2021 by Michael Ovitz · said 151 times in 18 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by David Rosenthal (94), Ben Gilbert (42), Mark Zuckerberg (8), Steve Ballmer (3), Michael Ovitz (1), Brad Gerstner (1), Ben Thompson (1)
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2025 83 mentions in 3 episodes 28 per episode
2024 46 mentions in 5 episodes 9 per episode
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2023 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2022 19 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Yahoo, oldest first
Dec 21, 2021 positive
Michael Ovitz proposed that Disney acquire Yahoo and CBS Records
“When I went to Disney, I put together seven initiatives. That I wrote about in the book that would have made Disney a fortune, starting with buying Yahoo, buying CBS records for two billion dollars, which is worth 10 times, 20 times that right now.”
Sep 18, 2024
Zuckerberg: Facebook board tried to fire him after rejecting Yahoo's $1B offer
“In 2006, Yahoo wanted to buy the company for a billion dollars, and everyone on our management team wanted to sell it, and the board tried to fire me, and everyone, and basically in the next year, everyone else on the management team left because they, I hadn'…”
Sep 30, 2024
Zuckerberg: Facebook board tried firing him over $1B Yahoo offer
“In 2006, Yahoo wanted to buy the company for a billion dollars, and everyone on our management team wanted to sell it, and the board tried to fire me, and everyone, and basically in the next year, everyone else on the management team left because they, I hadn'…”
Oct 28, 2024
Oct 28, 2024
Zuckerberg Rejected Yahoo Acquisition After Terry Semel Lowered $1B Offer
“So Mark actually agrees to the Yahoo deal. Billion dollars. It's gonna be all in stock. Yahoo's gonna buy the company. In the interim between when they shake hands on the deal and while the docs are being drafted, Yahoo announces their quarterly earnings, and …”
Jun 30, 2025
Jun 30, 2025 positive
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Rosenthal: Google launched in a uniquely narrow historical timing window
“If Larry and Sergey had met and started working on this a few years earlier, it would have been Yahoo! Because the web was just so much smaller. Like, you didn't need a technology-based search engine to understand it. And then if they'd started a few years lat…”
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Jun 30, 2025 negative
Jun 30, 2025 positive
Yahoo invested $10M and powered Google's search backfill in 2000
“In June of 2000, Google signs the deal with Yahoo that they are gonna take over All organic search result backfills on yahoo.com with the Powered by Google branding, and Yahoo is going to invest ten million dollars in Google as part of this deal.”
Jun 30, 2025 positive
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel offered $1B to buy Google in 2001
“As recently as late 2001, just months before, there's a dinner with Terry Semel, who's the CEO of Yahoo.
Kind of big media executive guy, comes in, takes over, is the big media CEO.
And he sits down with the founders and he says, so guys, I think we're your bi…”
Jun 30, 2025 bullish
Jun 30, 2025 neutral
Jun 30, 2025 negative
Gilbert: Human-curated web directories cannot scale as internet content multiplies exponentially
“When you have a small number of total websites, curating them is interesting, but when you have 10,000 times more websites and 10,000 times more niches that people are interested in, directory is not going to be an efficient way to surface what people are look…”
Jun 30, 2025 positive
Portals optimized for retention while Google optimized for exit speed
“This is basically why Google beat Yahoo. I mean, there's a lot more to it, but The portals all had this mentality of we want to build more and more and keep people on our site, in our ecosystem, continue to look at our banner ads, and Google, from this point, …”
Aug 26, 2025 negative
Jerry Yang Rejecting Microsoft's 2008 Yahoo Bid Was a Historic Blunder
“In one of the worst corporate decisions of all time, because just two years later,
Bing, after Microsoft would launch Bing the next year in June of 2009, Bing would take over powering Yahoo search for a deal that paid Yahoo one billion dollars.”