Jim Lanzone
CEO, Yahoo. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jim Lanzone is the CEO of Yahoo, overseeing its digital media and product operations. He previously served as the CEO of Tinder, President and CEO of CBS Interactive, and CEO of Ask.com.
2shows
2appearances
38statements
13resolved
6supported
2contradicted
46%fully supported
1said about them ↓ Everything Jim Lanzone said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lanzone: Startup with 10k users demanded $150M Yahoo acquisition
“We just came through this period where I swear to God, a company with only 10,000 registered users wanted me to pay one hundred and fifty million dollars for them. A company with 79,000 users want someone to pay five hundred million dollars for them.”
Lanzone: Twitter was my 'white whale' company that got away
“For a long time, you know, Twitter was that company for me. It's always been my white whale. I love the product, but I always felt it could have been a lot more than it was. And so I've, I always, you know, look side-eye at Twitter as the one that, that got aw…”
Lanzone: 86% of US internet users visit Yahoo each month
“86% of US internet users hit Yahoo every month.”
Lanzone: AI answers expand search rather than replace traditional search one-for-one
“Number one, because I do believe it's growing the category. I don't think it's a one for one replacement for every type of search that's happening. I think that what we used to call smart answers, what Google calls one box is already bringing that directly int…”
Lanzone: Yahoo Is One of Apollo's Fastest Returning Deals Ever
“One of the benefits for us has been that's one of the fastest returning deals they ever had.”
Lanzone: Standard interview questions signal interviewers don't know what they want
“So I think people hide behind standard interview questions if they don't really know what they're looking for.”
Lanzone: Company values are defined by hires and tolerated behavior
“I truly believe your company values are the people you hire. Like that is 90% of it. It's also, you know, what you accept and condone, what you criticize and don't allow it's, it is.”
Lanzone: Rigidly avoiding doubt prevents leaders from taking enough risks
“I think people who are Can, ah, you know, or go by that. They just won't take risk often enough. And I actually think doubt can inform risk.”
Lanzone: Internet company CEOs should have product management or founder backgrounds
“Not all the time, but usually, you know, it's best for a CEO of an internet company to have been out of product, you know, or being a founder is almost the same thing.”
Lanzone offered to return venture capital after 2008 financial crash
“I accepted money and the crash of 2008 happened two weeks later. I offered to give the money back. And they said, no, just go ahead because some of the best companies can be created in times like this.”
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, …”
Lanzone: Yahoo is among Apollo's fastest-returning deals ever
“You know, I'm not sure if you've heard this yet, but Yahoo is already one of the fastest returning deals in Apollo history.”
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.”
Lanzone: Taking Yahoo public again is the optimal long-term outcome
“Well, I think the ideal is that we're public company again, that we've spent this time as a private company. And now with the market being very, very different than six months ago, let alone the last 13 years, that we have the ability to retrench Off, you know…”
Lanzone: Yahoo owns 25% of Taboola after shifting native ad supply
“And then to, we did this deal where we took 25% of Taboola, and we shifted all of our native advertising supply to them.”
Lanzone: Yahoo cut 20% of staff during ad tech restructuring
“So with that came the reduction of 20% of our workforce who are associated with those products.”
Lanzone: Accept Edge Inefficiencies to Let Product Units Move Faster
“And I'll accept Inefficiencies at the edges in order to let them own the relationship with their customer and be able to develop quickly and with the expertise developed, you know, for that.”
Lanzone: Undoing Google's Search Dominance Is No Longer Realistic For Yahoo
“The move to Google in June of 2000, you know, was its own thing that time was spent trying to undo, but at this point is not a realistic job. Like we can still participate in search and make good money from search, but like Google is Google at this point.”
Lanzone: Yahoo logs 36.5B minutes per month in the US
“We're 36.5 billion minutes per month just in the US.”
Lanzone: Yahoo ranks #1 in beauty and fashion without dedicated product
“Like in, if you look at the rankings, we're number one in beauty and fashion, even though we don't really have, I mean, a really dedicated product to that.”
Lanzone: Tech Turnarounds Succeed by Focusing Strictly on Existing Users
“If you have a large user base, That's product has seen better days where the you know, the team could probably be improved, where the brand had seen better days. If you just focus on crushing it for your users, for the users you already have. That that actuall…”
Lanzone: Yahoo Cost Cuts Were Strategic as Company Remains Highly Profitable
“The costs have been naturally reduced here in a strategic way, not to save money because we didn't, you know, we've been making a lot of money. So we don't, it hasn't been for that reason.”
Lanzone: All major search engines will route queries between AI and links
“This is clearly whether it's Bing,
Or ChatGPT standalone or perplexity standalone with hitting all the databases they're hitting or now Apple and Google and how they're going to do it. They're all going to be doing that the same way. And so for some queries, i…”
Lanzone: Yahoo Finance and Sports Possess Gen Z-Balanced User Demographics
“It's we're not as well known to them, for sure, but that depends on the category. You'd be surprised how balanced the user base of Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports are, right? Because we're, you know, a lot of people's favorite fantasy platform, and we're defini…”
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