Yelp, every mention
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every year anyone Guy Raz 74Jeremy Stoppelman 27Thomas Keller 1Jennifer Martin 1Blake Scholl 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Yelp comes up
Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor. How neighborhood chatter went global
- ▶ 2:15 Guy Raz He co-launched ePinions, which was kind of an early version of Yelp, and then Fanbase, an almanac for sports fans that completely failed.
- ▶ 10:56 Guy Raz So, so there's this idea that Naval has, and basically, if my, if I understand it correctly, it was supposed to be like sort of user generated review site for everything, not like Yelp, which is mainly sort of services, but this is going…
- ▶ 1:02:37 Guy Raz Yeah, I mean, in a sense, right, and we'll talk about the evolution of what you're trying to do now, and sort of the relaunch, but you could have sort of gone head to head earlier with like Angie's List, or even what Yelp did, you know,… 2 times in the scene
Resy and Eater: Ben Leventhal
Chef and Restaurateur: Thomas Keller
- ▶ 1:12:18 Thomas Keller And so you learn from those experiences, but at the same time, today you have countless, you know, just look at Yelp.
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
- ▶ 2:37 Blake Scholl It was, think of it as Yelp plus Google Maps plus Foursquare on a Motorola Razr in 2006.
Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
Affirm: Max Levchin (Part 2 of 2)
- ▶ 2:14 Guy Raz Not only was he a key founder and developer at PayPal, but he went on to have a hand in the founding of Yelp, Glow, which is a suite of apps around fertility and pregnancy, and
- ▶ 7:26 Guy Raz So you, you got, um, some office space in Soma and, um, we heard about this when, when we did our episode on Yelp with Jeremy Stoppelman, who 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:07 Guy Raz I mean, for one thing, you're still very involved with Yelp. 2 times in the scene
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Pierre Paul & Toby Egbuna
Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
- ▶ 59:58 Jennifer Martin I remember there was the specialty stores that we got into, and I think that one thing that we'd replicated was we'd, like, go on to Yelp and just look for cheese shops, specialty shops, gourmet shops in other cities, right?
How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp
- ▶ 1:05 Guy Raz And today, we're going to hear from Jeremy Stoppelman, the founder and CEO of Yelp. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:27 Guy Raz And this has actually pretty dramatically affected your business, Yelp's business, right? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:10 Guy Raz And then the other one was when you started Yelp and nobody came to the party, like it was really 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:27 Guy Raz What are, what are some things that you've started to do on the platform since the pandemic started that might actually redefine Yelp, you know, in the future? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:57 Jeremy Stoppelman And the subsequent social unrest, we launched into action both internally at Yelp to understand, you know, what's going on? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:23 Guy Raz If you spend any time on Yelp, you've probably had that confusing experience where you see a really negative and cutting review, followed by a really positive one. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:30 Jeremy Stoppelman They're sort of like Yelp becoming a bit of a political or other review sites becoming a bit of a political platform when there's some sort of political scandal associated with the business or other scandal and that we have a separate… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:22 Jeremy Stoppelman We do have flagging, uh, so if you log into your business owner dashboard, biz.yelp.com, you can go in there and mark a review as suspicious, or give us, you know, some context around it.
- ▶ 22:29 Guy Raz We mentioned that when you launched Yelp, it didn't get a whole lot of traction, and it was really, I mean, I, I think you described it as like this dark period.
- ▶ 24:25 Jeremy Stoppelman I don't think there is enough communication that I could do at Yelp right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:11 Guy Raz That's an excerpt from my conversation with Jeremy Stoppelman, the founder and CEO of Yelp.
Gimlet Media: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
- ▶ 0:53 Jeremy Stoppelman So it was literally an afterthought that you would be able to write a review on Yelp. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:37 Guy Raz All right, so you, you drop out of business school, uh, and you guys start working on Yelp, and, and I read that in that fall, fall of 2004, while you guys are kind of working on this, the name that you really wanted to call it was Yokel,… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:07 Guy Raz When we come back, in just a moment, Jeremy and his team relaunched the Yelp website with some important changes, and then started to see people besides their own mothers actually use the site.
- ▶ 30:38 Guy Raz So, it's late, right after Jeremy Stoppelman and his co-founder Russ Simmons launched Yelp. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:33 Guy Raz Did Yelp pretty much naturally kind of just become primarily a restaurant review site initially? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:46 Jeremy Stoppelman I mean, yeah, Yelp has always been controversial, uh, because we host people's opinions, and, uh, and not every business, uh, wants to hear the feedback or is open to the feedback, uh, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:46 Jeremy Stoppelman And we said, we're not going to compete with ourselves in your Yelp-like property that you're building. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:26 Jeremy Stoppelman But the fact of the matter is, like, and this is true with Yelp, too, most people actually like you. 4 times in the scene