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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Yahoo comes up
Bobbie: Laura Modi. How a Baby Formula Startup Took Market Share From Two Industry Giants
- ▶ 8:13 Laura Modi The goal at the time was to go up against Yahoo Finance, which was the number one platform.
Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
- ▶ 22:32 Sal Khan Yeah, it was over the phone, um, and we'd use Yahoo Instant Messenger to type messages or to type questions, and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:42 Sal Khan Yahoo Instant Messenger at the time had this feature called Yahoo Doodle, where you could actually, with your mouse, scribble something, and someone on the other side could see what you scribbled, and you could imagine writing math…
Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 2:10 Guy Raz He left Yahoo in the late nineties when it was one of the hottest tech companies in the world.
- ▶ 3:33 Nirav Tolia I ultimately stumbled upon this thing called Yahoo, which in the early days of the internet was the guide to all the websites that existed online. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:07 Nirav Tolia We would go and surf the web, and we would get submissions into the Yahoo directory, which we were responsible for reading and categorizing, and then I would say the true job was more like being a librarian, but it was way cooler.
- ▶ 5:36 Guy Raz One of the interesting things about your time there was, I mean, clearly you were, you are ambitious, and you started this kind of informal, like, monthly meetup in the late nineties called Round Zero, and I guess the idea was just to find… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:57 Guy Raz And in 1999, so roughly two and a half, three years after you join, you decide to leave Yahoo to start your own company, to co-found a company with some other smart people, including Naval Ravikant, who's now a 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:00 Guy Raz Ok, so you leave Yahoo to start this new thing called, ah, ePinions, and, and tell me how, how that came about, how that happened. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:50 Nirav Tolia But when we think about our original dreams, we wanted to build something like Yahoo, which at the time was a hundred billion dollar company.
- ▶ 1:06:33 Nirav Tolia Someone hired me at Yahoo.
Snap: Evan Spiegel
Vizio: William Wang
- ▶ 52:57 William Wang And, uh, back then with T-Lab was, uh, Yahoo, and they built the first operating system for TV for us.
Skype and Kazaa: Niklas Zennström
- ▶ 8:31 Niklas Zennström To try out all the new, you know, the first, you know, really internet services like Yahoo, and AltaVista was a big aha moment.
- ▶ 15:48 Niklas Zennström Yeah, so the kind of one point O version of the, of the web was very much still company to consumers, even like something like Yahoo, there was not a community.
- ▶ 52:09 Guy Raz I mean, you knew that the big tech companies, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, Google, they were looking at what you were doing, and they could easily build something to replicate it and potentially crush you. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:26 Niklas Zennström Yeah, so we, you know, if you remember in the time, back in the time, Yahoo had Yahoo Messenger, which was awesome.
Groupon and Descript: Andrew Mason
- ▶ 3:32 Guy Raz At one point, Groupon entertained acquisition offers from both Yahoo and Google, offers in the billions of dollars.
- ▶ 32:20 Guy Raz That same year, you guys get approached by Yahoo, um, with, with an acquisition offer. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:51 Andrew Mason And, um, I said, hey, I want to introduce someone, um, joining me on the stage is Carol Bartz, the CEO of Yahoo.
Weee!: Larry Liu
KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin
- ▶ 25:22 Sandra Oh Lin Um, I think the experience that we collectively had at PayPal, at eBay, um, one of the co-founders had been at Yahoo before, um,
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 8:28 Guy Raz And I guess like really soon after you start, um, you go to some talk by someone from Yahoo, comes to campus to talk about Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:58 Luis von Ahn This guy from Yahoo, who was the chief scientist of Yahoo at the time. 10 times in the scene
The Ringer: Bill Simmons
- ▶ 37:08 Bill Simmons But that I had, my contract was coming up the beginning of oh seven and Yahoo was trying to get me to jump over, which I didn't want to do.
- ▶ 1:06:56 Bill Simmons We want to be a place that finds talent and pushes talent up a level, and we want to do great sports content and great culture content, but do we want to be, like, Yahoo?
Roku: Anthony Wood
- ▶ 10:04 Anthony Wood Yahoo was like a couple kids.
Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
- ▶ 2:43 Guy Raz And then try and sell that information to other websites like Expedia and Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:45 Steve Kaufer So a client could be Yahoo travel or Expedia or American airlines or any of the other folks that
- ▶ 18:46 Steve Kaufer Uh, it was Expedia, it was, you know, Yahoo Search, it was Lycos, it was American Airlines, it was anyone and anyone that could or would, uh, take the call.
- ▶ 19:28 Steve Kaufer And, you know, Yahoo's response is etched in my brain. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:52 Guy Raz This would be on, this would be on like Yahoo Travel, right?
- ▶ 28:20 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Steve and his team figure out how to make the business work, and why they walk away from a big deal with the company that once shunned them, Yahoo.
- ▶ 46:24 Guy Raz Around 2000 three, maybe late 2003, from what I gather, you, you, you entered into talks with Yahoo. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:56 Guy Raz So from, from what I gather, while you were in negotiations with Yahoo,
Twitch: Emmett Shear
- ▶ 15:14 Emmett Shear Yeah, we managed to convince two, two of Paul's friends who'd worked with him at Yahoo.
Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
- ▶ 4:30 Guy Raz Yes, Jerry Yang, the founder of Yahoo.
- ▶ 5:01 Shan-Lyn Ma Um, Jerry Yang, I was, and still am, a huge fan of, because he was the founder of Yahoo, uh, which, you know, going back into internet history, was really the first company that made the World Wide Web accessible to anyone in the world, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:47 Guy Raz Um, while you were there, I mean, one of the things you do, obviously, you're, you're, you want to get experience during your summers, um, between your, your time there, um, you went to Yahoo. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:16 Guy Raz And, and after you got your MBA, you, you eventually did get a job at Yahoo. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:15 Shan-Lyn Ma So, you know, for example, we were talking about, hey, there should be an app for Yahoo Finance, but who's responsible for that, and who makes 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:16 Guy Raz So I guess around, um, you wind up leaving Yahoo and, and moving to New York to work at
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 24:03 Matt Mullenweg Yahoo reached out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:30 Matt Mullenweg He had sold his startup to Yahoo, and so Tony and I met, we hit it off amazingly, and then I talked to these investors.
Dude Perfect: Cory Cotton and Tyler Toney
- ▶ 42:22 Cory Cotton And so, you know, finally, the screen kind of slows down enough for me to read a text message or two, and what people had said was something to the effect of, hey guys, your most recent video has two million views, and it was shared on… 3 times in the scene
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018)
- ▶ 13:57 Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) I, um, I was on a Yahoo messaging chat about music and hip-hop, and some, some person introduced me to a program for recording, a lot of people use it in radio, called Adobe Audition.
Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
- ▶ 21:30 Gary Vaynerchuk oh yeah, I got one, uh, it's AOL at yahoo.com. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:22 Gary Vaynerchuk He's the guy that made me stop searching stuff on Yahoo to go to Google, so what ends up happening is Twitter comes out, and I really am intuitive to it.
How I Built Resilience: Shan-Lyn Ma of Zola
Remembering Tony Hsieh of Zappos
- ▶ 7:28 Tony Hsieh Websites like Yahoo would have advertising customers.
Dropbox: Drew Houston
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan (2018)
Khan Academy: Sal Khan
- ▶ 25:02 Sal Khan Yeah, it was over the phone, um, and we'd use Yahoo Instant Messenger to type messages or to type questions, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:12 Sal Khan Yahoo Instant Messenger at the time had this feature called Yahoo Doodle, where you could actually, with your mouse, scribble something, and someone on the other side could see what you scribbled, and you could imagine writing math…
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
- ▶ 8:16 Guy Raz But I guess, like, really soon after you start, um, you go to some talk by someone from Yahoo, comes to campus to talk about Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:46 Luis von Ahn This guy from Yahoo, who was the chief scientist of Yahoo at the time. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 Guy Raz Do you, like, email this guy at Yahoo and say, hey, I've got your solution for you? 5 times in the scene
Fitbit: James Park
- ▶ 8:37 James Park Time of crazy names like Yahoo, et cetera.
- ▶ 15:24 James Park I think the second one came in a day later, but we got two emails, one from, uh, CNET, which is a huge digital publishing company, and then we got another email from Yahoo,
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018)
- ▶ 29:30 Patrick Collison Facebook would have been long since eclipsed by MySpace or Yahoo or Google.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Stewart Butterfield
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales (2018)
- ▶ 7:08 Jimmy Wales The best web directory around was Yahoo, and Yahoo hired, I don't know, hundreds of people to go around and index, manually by hand, index topics and categories on the web. 3 times in the scene
Evite: Selina Tobaccowala
- ▶ 6:28 Selina Tobaccowala I mean, there was Excite, there was Yahoo, there was so many different companies, and that idea that you were a computer scientist and you could go start a company was absolutely in the air.
- ▶ 13:40 Selina Tobaccowala We started to see Yahoo, Excite, um, really those were the two big ones, really starting to take off. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:20 Selina Tobaccowala You had email that had just come out, which was like Yahoo Mail, Excite Mail, Hotmail, which was the big one.
Zappos: Tony Hsieh (2017)
- ▶ 8:31 Tony Hsieh Websites like Yahoo would have advertising customers.
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou
- ▶ 13:00 Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) I, um, I was on a Yahoo messaging chat about music and hip-hop, and some, some person introduced me to a program for recording, a lot of people use it in radio, called Adobe Audition.
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan
Slack & Flickr: Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 20:10 Stewart Butterfield Um, we were talking to Google, um, to Yahoo, to, um, I don't know if people remember this anymore, but to Ask Jeeves. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:07 Guy Raz So, so Yahoo gets a pretty good deal now that we, we know now in hindsight on this, this product. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:40 Guy Raz So how were those three years at Yahoo? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:24 Guy Raz So when you left, um, Yahoo, was it 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:25 Guy Raz You'd worked for Yahoo.
Drybar: Alli Webb (2017)
- ▶ 8:30 Alli Webb So I posted on this mommy group called Peach Head, where it was like a Yahoo group, and it was this resource for moms.
- ▶ 10:58 Alli Webb And so that's when I think the idea started percolating for me, and I was like, huh, you know, there's no place, like, in the middle, and that's when I went to my brother, and he was working for Yahoo at the time, also when Yahoo was in,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:55 Guy Raz So, to start the company, they cashed out Cameron's retirement accounts, and Michael put in a chunk of money he had made during the dot-com boom at Yahoo.
Stripe: Patrick and John Collison
- ▶ 29:37 Patrick and John Collison Facebook would have been long since eclipsed by MySpace or Yahoo or Google.
Wayfair: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine
- ▶ 17:08 Niraj Shah There were, uh, in those days, Yahoo, on Yahoo search, you could type in terms and it would tell you how many searches a month there were for that item. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:08 Niraj Shah There were, uh, in those days, Yahoo, on Yahoo search, you could type in terms and it would tell you how many searches a month there were for that item.
Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales
- ▶ 6:39 Jimmy Wales The best web directory around was Yahoo, and Yahoo hired, I don't know, hundreds of people to go around and index, manually by hand, index topics and categories on the web. 2 times in the scene
LinkedIn: Reid Hoffman
Zappos: Tony Hsieh
- ▶ 6:02 Tony Hsieh Websites like Yahoo would have advertising customers.
Drybar: Alli Webb
- ▶ 7:37 Alli Webb So I posted on this mommy group called Peach Head, where it was like a Yahoo group, and it was this resource for moms.
- ▶ 10:05 Alli Webb And so that's when I think the idea started percolating for me, and I was like, huh, you know, there's no place, like, in the middle, and that's when I went to my brother, and he was working for Yahoo at the time, also when Yahoo was in,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:56 Guy Raz So, to start the company, they cashed out Cameron's retirement accounts, and Michael put in a chunk of money he had made during the dot-com boom at Yahoo.