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
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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: High-performing teams require domain expertise, EQ, ambition, and passion
“And I really, when I'm hiring people, I really hire for four things. The first is I really want domain experts, right? I do not want people who are faking it till they make it. And if you are an expert, you tend to be able to understand what one looks like. An…”
Lanzone: Tinder neglected consumer-facing feature innovation before his arrival
“Tinder hadn't evolved in quite a long time on the consumer front. They'd done a lot on the business model front. But they had not, you know, you being a big subscriber, but on the consumer feature side, not a ton.”
Lanzone: Visionary prototype videos are the easiest tool to unblock velocity
“And so once you have that, it's really easy to get the company unblocked and moving.”
Lanzone: AOL remains very profitable with strong free cash flow
“This company is also AOL. So we also own AOL, which is still very profitable and does a lot of free cash flow.”
Lanzone: Yahoo was spun out of Verizon for around $5 billion
“Otherwise, you know, given all the things Ron John said, it wouldn't have been spun out of Verizon at the price it was, which was around five billion dollars.”
Lanzone: Majority of Yahoo Impressions Come From Logged-In Users
“The majority of our impressions and our you know, are from logged in users. So we have a huge amount of first party data.”
Lanzone: Yahoo has embedded AI into Mail and Fantasy Sports subscription tier
“Going back a year, we launched AI into mail to help you write the mail, you know, write your email, edit it, search for it, summarize it. We, you know, it's deeply embedded into fantasy sports, believe it or not, to help you set your lineup without you actuall…”
Lanzone: Ask Jeeves 50x'd its stock after adopting Google AdWords in 2002
“And in 2002, we switched to Google AdWords where I think we're the first ones to do that, which helped us become profitable and set our stock on a, I mean, I think we, 50 X that thing from there. And then we sold I see in February of 2005.”
Lanzone: Yahoo Now Has a Subscription Layer for Every Offered Product
“We do have a subscription layer for every product that we offer.”
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.”
Lanzone: Ask Jeeves' Q&A box showed 90% of time, clicked 25%
“It was a question and answer product that was essentially manual. And it showed up at the top of the page, 90% of the time in how we looked at the data. It was only clicked on 25% of the time.”
Lanzone: CBS Interactive funded streaming via CNET revenue 5 years before Disney+
“At CBS Interactive, we ran a portfolio of brands, and we did it by turning around CNET, which was a public company acquired by CBS, and really goosing revenue on CNET to pay for the subscription opportunity that we saw in streaming. And again, this is 20 11, 1…”
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.”
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