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Mason: Yahoo in 2010 was a place where great companies went to die
“And my perception of Yahoo at the time was it was a place where great companies go to die.”
Mason: Hired actress to impersonate Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz to prank staff
“What happened was we had an all hands meeting at this church down the street from the office and, you know, they're the 500 or a thousand Groupon employees were in this church. And I came up to the stage. I said, hey, I have a special announcement... I said, h…”
Patrick Collison: Money cannot be mechanically turned into great software products
“And this is one of the great facts about our industry is that you cannot turn Money into great products as a kind of mechanical operation. If it were possible, there would be many more great iPhone competitors. Facebook would have been long since eclipsed by M…”
Jerry Yang told Nirav Tolia he was less intelligent than he thought
“And he looked at me right in the eyes, and he said, you're a lot less intelligent than I thought you were. Do you have any idea how hard it is to build something like Yahoo? Well, you're about to find out.”
Wang: Vizio built the first Wi-Fi TV using Yahoo's operating system
“We had the first Wi-Fi TV, and we had the first TV with a little keyboard, right? So you can browse the web. And back then with T-Lab was Yahoo, and they built the first operating system for TV for us.”
Von Ahn: No money was exchanged when giving CAPTCHA to Yahoo
“No, no, no, no, no money was, no money exchanged hands.”
Tobaccowala: Stanford Network Gives Founders Privilege to Secure Executive Meetings
“That is the beauty of the Stanford network. You know, these are the things that, that you can't discount when you think about privilege that people have. It's like, you reach out to, you know, an executive at Excite and their executive at Yahoo, and you say, I…”
Cuban: Early $30,000 AudioNet stakes grew to $22 million at sale
“And so we sold, you know, one percent chunks for 30,000 dollars to our friends. When we sold the company, those 30,000 dollar chunks were worth twenty two million dollars.”
Von Ahn: No money was exchanged when providing CAPTCHA to Yahoo
“No money was, no money exchanged hands here.”
Von Ahn: Yahoo deployed CAPTCHA live within about a week of receiving code
“What was amazing is within about a week of when we sent them this, it was already functional. You know, live. It was live.”
Simmons: Yahoo tried to recruit him away from ESPN in 2007
“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.”
Dude Perfect Hit 2 Million Views in Two Hours via Yahoo's Homepage
“It had been shared as the main kind of, you know, clickable thing on Yahoo's homepage, and about two hours it had gotten about two million views.”
Von Ahn: Yahoo deployed CAPTCHA live within a week of receiving code
“What was amazing is within about a week of when we sent them this, it was already functional. You know, live. It was live.”
Von Ahn: CAPTCHA was developed independently at CMU without notifying Yahoo
“Yeah, I mean, with my PhD advisor, it was, it became a research subject. And yeah, we did not tell Yahoo.”
Getting approval for new Flickr servers at Yahoo took five weeks
“Now when we wanted to get more servers, we had to go to the hardware review committee, and you had to make an appointment, and you couldn't get an appointment for like five weeks.”