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“86% of US internet users hit Yahoo every month.”

“One of the benefits for us has been that's one of the fastest returning deals they ever had.”

“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, …”

“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.”

“It's over 10% of all marriages come from Tinder, which is different than its reputation, and I've seen it.”

“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…”

“We're 36.5 billion minutes per month just in the US.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.”

“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.”

“The majority of our impressions and our you know, are from logged in users. So we have a huge amount of first party data.”

“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…”

“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.”

“We do have a subscription layer for every product that we offer.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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.”

“We raised fifty million dollars. We're going to go public. And then we crashed like you wouldn't believe with the crash. We sold what was left to ask Jeeves which is pretty much the only company that wanted us.”