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every year anyone Alex Kantrowitz 54Jim Lanzone 40Ranjan Roy 20Marissa Mayer 10M.G. Siegler 3Reed Albergotti 2Bret Taylor 2Tony Stubblebine 1Sridhar Ramaswamy 1Simon Balmain 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Yahoo comes up
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 9:03 Alex Kantrowitz He just sold the blog to Yahoo for a billion and then he disappeared.
More OpenAI C-Suite Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Elusive Next Hit
- ▶ 54:50 M.G. Siegler And it's sort of the self-improvement stuff, um, just makes them better and better, faster and faster, just like Google leveraged back in the day with search engine, um, where they were able to just outcompete the bings of the world and… 3 times in the scene
Is AI Killing Software? — With Bret Taylor, OpenAI's board chair and CEO of Sierra
- ▶ 16:25 Bret Taylor So, first I'll say, I think, when, ah, when I was in college, when I started college, the front door to the internet were portals, so Yahoo and Excite and the like, and it was sort of a quaint time.
- ▶ 54:54 Bret Taylor Yeah, and then you had, you know, Yahoo and Excite as the portals, and you had, um, like us.
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
- ▶ 37:10 Tony Stubblebine Yahoo is part of it.
Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron
Is ChatGPT The Last Website?, Grok’s System Prompt, Meta’s llama Fiasco
- ▶ 2:18 Alex Kantrowitz Then everything else that follows, X, WhatsApp, Wikipedia, Reddit, Yahoo Japan, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:42 Alex Kantrowitz Shout out Jim Lenzone and the Yahoo crew.
Is OpenAI's o3 Model AGI? Is AI The New Social Media? Zuck's Revealing Testimony
- ▶ 33:44 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, second is let's organize it so we go to portals like Yahoo where you can click through links.
Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
- ▶ 22:12 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, now it's a different song, and this is from, uh, Yahoo Finance.
Why Marissa Mayer Is Betting Big On Consumer Tech
- ▶ 0:00 Alex Kantrowitz Let's talk with Marissa Meyer, the longtime Google executive and former Yahoo CEO about whether new consumer technology stands a chance and where the AI race goes next. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:47 Marissa Mayer That people were gonna say, oh, I'm choosing between Google or Yahoo or, you know, Microsoft, um, and that there was gonna have to be flavors the same way there is on, like, CBS, ABC, NBC, right, in terms of, like, what shows they would…
- ▶ 32:13 Marissa Mayer Anecdotally, we did a fun thing at Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:41 Marissa Mayer And they tend to buy socks, but you could actually, you could actually tie together Yahoo Weather, because obviously we had the weather patterns with when people, when and where people bought socks, and so there were lots of strange…
- ▶ 32:41 Marissa Mayer And they tend to buy socks, but you could actually, you could actually tie together Yahoo Weather, because obviously we had the weather patterns with when people, when and where people bought socks, and so there were lots of strange…
- ▶ 34:32 Marissa Mayer Uh, and interestingly, when I left Google for Yahoo, my last conversation as a formal Google employee was with Sergey himself, and, um, uh, I asked Sergey if he had any advice for me, and he gave me a lot of different advice, and, um, we… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:08 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, let me ask you a couple of Yahoo questions before we wrap. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:39 Marissa Mayer I think that, you know, my interaction with entrepreneurs has defined my whole career, obviously for Larry and Sergey, and then Philo and Yang, who I got to work with at Yahoo, Philo more closely than Yang, but both of them. 2 times in the scene
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Web is Still a Great Business
- ▶ 0:01 Alex Kantrowitz The Yahoo episode is here, long awaited, anticipated, asked for, and now delivered. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:11 Alex Kantrowitz Because obviously you're coming in, um, you were like pretty, pretty humble getting started talking about basically, I think there was a quote from you saying that every single product, uh, needs work in, in Yahoo and you're going to work… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, you know, I was thinking about like, why do we care about Yahoo? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:41 Jim Lanzone And so that's another, you know, big difference is that people choose Yahoo Finance.
- ▶ 5:46 Jim Lanzone They choose Yahoo Sports.
- ▶ 5:47 Jim Lanzone They choose Yahoo News and Mail.
- ▶ 5:47 Jim Lanzone They choose Yahoo News and Mail.
- ▶ 7:20 Alex Kantrowitz So there's this internal presentation, and I think you say that Yahoo's non-search ad sales fell by 18% in the fourth quarter of 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:24 Jim Lanzone And, um, and so when they came together as oath in, in way, 17 or, or, you know, whichever year that was, um, you know, those things were kind of munched together into one unified stack, which became the go-to-market, uh, for Yahoo ads at…
- ▶ 8:41 Jim Lanzone And that included native advertising, which is the old platform called Gemini as part of Yahoo.
- ▶ 12:21 Jim Lanzone So across, uh, you know, sports, finance, news, brought in, you know, entirely new teams.
- ▶ 12:21 Jim Lanzone So across, uh, you know, sports, finance, news, brought in, you know, entirely new teams.
- ▶ 12:21 Jim Lanzone So across, uh, you know, sports, finance, news, brought in, you know, entirely new teams.
- ▶ 15:16 Jim Lanzone He is the GM and president of Yahoo Sports.
- ▶ 15:19 Jim Lanzone Toppen Bott, who way back was Jeff Wiener's number two at Yahoo back in the day, but he was the COO of NerdWallet, and so he's the head of Yahoo Finance, um, and then hired another person from the, you know, fintech industry as the head of…
- ▶ 15:19 Jim Lanzone Toppen Bott, who way back was Jeff Wiener's number two at Yahoo back in the day, but he was the COO of NerdWallet, and so he's the head of Yahoo Finance, um, and then hired another person from the, you know, fintech industry as the head of…
- ▶ 15:33 Jim Lanzone Um, Kat Downs Mulder is the, uh, is the GM of Yahoo News and Home, and she was the, um,
- ▶ 16:13 Ranjan Roy I think you had said it took, you know, almost a year to start moving away from the SSPs being integrated in things like, like how does the legacy Yahoo tech stack influence that verticalized federal state model? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:01 Jim Lanzone Trying to be more consistent with fonts, or with, you know, uh, you know, certain ways that we render things, but, but otherwise, I actually like them to be independent, um, and to let Yahoo Finance really super serve, uh, finance users… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Jim Lanzone You know, what you're trying to accomplish in Yahoo Finance is different than news, is different than sports, is different in search or mail.
- ▶ 19:16 Jim Lanzone You know, what you're trying to accomplish in Yahoo Finance is different than news, is different than sports, is different in search or mail.
- ▶ 19:16 Jim Lanzone You know, what you're trying to accomplish in Yahoo Finance is different than news, is different than sports, is different in search or mail. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:16 Jim Lanzone You know, what you're trying to accomplish in Yahoo Finance is different than news, is different than sports, is different in search or mail.
- ▶ 19:58 Jim Lanzone Well, as you say, if you think about what we do, and again, Yahoo CEOs used to be beat up about whether they're a media company or a technology company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:54 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and then you, with Yahoo sports, you, uh, you bought the peer to peer gambling site wager.
- ▶ 22:13 Alex Kantrowitz And it looks like you've also in Yahoo finance scaled back advertising, which like, if you think about a traditional quote unquote content play, no one would ever do that.
- ▶ 24:28 Ranjan Roy You'd mentioned bringing on a new CMO, head of comms, but you had also said at the beginning that any one of these brands, almost if you remove the Yahoo brand also stands on its own in terms of the numbers, in terms of users and revenue… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:26 Jim Lanzone You know, going back a year, we, we launched, uh, AI into mail to help you write the mail, you know, write your email, edit it, search for it, summarize it.
- ▶ 28:36 Jim Lanzone Um, we, you know, it's deeply embedded into fantasy sports, believe it or not, to help you set your lineup, uh, without you actually doing any work, you gotta pay a subscription tier for that product.
- ▶ 29:01 Jim Lanzone Um, finance obviously helping you, you know, um, invest more smartly.
- ▶ 29:09 Jim Lanzone Obviously we have search too. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:42 Alex Kantrowitz And after the break, we're going to talk about, I'm looking at Yahoo right now, the top bar right there is search. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:17 Jim Lanzone Yeah, look, for, for our search, the, the, I mean, there are people who start their search experiences with Yahoo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:03 Ranjan Roy And I guess, were there any valuable lessons that you're bringing to the Yahoo story now? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:34 Jim Lanzone And so the thing that we have to do, no matter what the outcome is here, and whether that's, um, all of Yahoo's acquired, parts of Yahoo are acquired by different people, we have an IPO, like whatever those are, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:27 Ranjan Roy I have to, I have to ask, uh, Gen Z, the next generation, how do you pitch the Yahoo brand experience to, you know, the next, uh, whether it's a pool suite.net, uh, a South by Southwest party, but, but I think at a higher level, like,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:04 Jim Lanzone You'd be surprised how balanced the user base of Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports are, right?
- ▶ 52:04 Jim Lanzone You'd be surprised how balanced the user base of Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports are, right?
Hamas vs. Israel Rewrites Social Media Norms
- ▶ 26:09 Reed Albergotti Um, but like before Twitter, um, the thing that like drove so much traffic was, was Yahoo news. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:58 Alex Kantrowitz And so, first of all, no need to apologize about the Yahoo reference. 4 times in the scene
Elon Musk Laid Me Off At Twitter: Simon Balmain
- ▶ 24:05 Simon Balmain Nick was the youngest person to ever get venture capital when he was like 15, sold his first company to Yahoo when he was 17, and this was, you know, his, his next company, you know, did the same thing again.
Why Ex-Google Ads Boss Sridhar Ramaswamy is Building An Ads-Free Search Engine
- ▶ 19:12 Sridhar Ramaswamy I joke to people, if you search on a place like yahoo.com,