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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 17Bob Baxley 4Seth Godin 3Jason Feifer 2Gustav Söderström 2Gina Gotthilf 2Christina Wodtke 2Bret Taylor 2Tom Conrad 1Jeanne DeWitt Grosser 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Yahoo comes up
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
- ▶ 47:24 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser It was a full year before Yahoo mail caught up and even longer before Hotmail and others did.
The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- ▶ 37:53 Ethan Smith And so we could ask in 1999 or whatever, should we just focus on AOL search and Yahoo search?
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- ▶ 23:49 Brian Balfour Massive, early, massive competition against Yahoo.
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 6:25 Bret Taylor A me too version of Yahoo Yellow Pages, you know, sort of, uh, um, essentially grafting on Yellow Pages search on top of Google search and with a properly crafted query, you could, you know, see those listings at the top of your search… 2 times in the scene
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 1:13:34 Jake Knapp If you go back to the early days of Gmail in the 2000, you know, if you had email, you were probably using Hotmail or Yahoo and it worked fine and you didn't have to think about it and this.
35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest and beyond | Bob Baxley
- ▶ 0:57 Lenny Rachitsky Bob is a designer, executive, and advisor who's built and led design teams at Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo, and most recently ThoughtSpot.
- ▶ 1:06 Lenny Rachitsky Over the course of his career that spanned over three decades, Bob has played a pivotal role in the design of the Apple Online Store, the Apple App Store, Pinterest, and early in his career, Yahoo Answers, products that have been used by…
- ▶ 1:02:30 Bob Baxley I mean, I don't want to, you know, Yahoo was an amazing company, but, but if we just look at Yahoo for a second, I worked there. 4 times in the scene
Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more
- ▶ 31:04 Seth Godin At the time, I was at Yahoo. 3 times in the scene
Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google)
- ▶ 1:18:40 Jag Duggal And we were going to use that disruptive vector, something fundamentally different, not just incrementally better to essentially dislodge Yahoo from owning brand advertising online.
Failure
- ▶ 1:22 Lenny Rachitsky Forward-thinking companies such as Hinge, Patreon, Yahoo, Accolade, and more use Sendbird to build in-app communication experiences that drive engagement, conversion, and retention.
- ▶ 48:50 Gina Gotthilf And, and finally they also laid me off because they decided to sell to Yahoo.
My favorite interview questions from 100+ guests
- ▶ 1:19 Lenny Rachitsky Forward thinking companies such as Hinge, Patreon, Yahoo, Accolade, and more use Sendbird to build in-app communication experiences that drive engagement, conversion, and retention.
Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Zero)
- ▶ 48:55 Tom Conrad Like the, I think the biggest exit in digital music when we got going was Yahoo had bought Music Match for like four hundred million dollars.
Scaling Duolingo, embracing failure, and insight into Latin America’s tech scene | Gina Gotthilf
- ▶ 12:43 Gina Gotthilf And, and finally they also laid me off because they decided to sell to Yahoo.
How to get press for your product | Jason Feifer (editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine)
- ▶ 31:43 Jason Feifer It ended up on Yahoo Finance. 2 times in the scene
The science of product, big bets, and how AI is impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 4:54 Gustav Söderström I had sold the company to, to Yahoo in the mobile space. 2 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
- ▶ 0:57 Lenny Rachitsky Before getting into teaching and consulting, she was a product leader at LinkedIn, Myspace, Zynga, and Yahoo, as well as a founder of three different companies, plus an online magazine called Boxes and Arrows.
- ▶ 9:54 Christina Wodtke So by having this focus on really important things, not to spread yourself too thin, like the famous peanut butter, uh, memo from Yahoo, which I guess was long ago.
- ▶ 42:22 Christina Wodtke So in my time in industry, you know, cause I was at what Yahoo, LinkedIn, Zynga, MySpace, stuff like that.
Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 15:08 Aarthi Ramamurthy We met on, we're dating ourselves now, but we met on Yahoo messenger back in the day.
The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)
- ▶ 0:48 Lenny Rachitsky Trias has worked at some of today's most important tech companies, including Yahoo, Twitter, Google, and most recently Stripe, both as an IC and a manager, and his advice is always rooted in his real life experiences at these companies.
- ▶ 14:31 Lenny Rachitsky Google, Yahoo. 6 times in the scene
The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
- ▶ 15:43 Lenny Rachitsky So another question in my mind is just like, some names are just like nonsense words like Yahoo and Google, I guess. 5 times in the scene