Yahoo, every mention
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every year anyone Shaan Puri 15Jeff Bonforte 10Sam Parr 5Noah Kagan 4Balaji Srinivasan 3Val Katayev 2Nick Gray 1Jason Lemkin 1Ben Horowitz 1Andrew Wilkinson 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Yahoo comes up
60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA)
- ▶ 19:26 Ben Horowitz The current, the executive staff that he had at the time was trying to run a coup to force him to sell to Yahoo.
How two straight guys bought Grindr and made $2B
- ▶ 18:49 Jeff Bonforte You, you, I had this at Yahoo, so I just, I just knew what to do when you have users in a 190 countries. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:27 Jeff Bonforte We weren't just bringing people in that I knew from Yahoo and Google and other startups. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:43 Jeff Bonforte Zobny was started in the same dorm room of Dropbox with Drew, so my founders of Zobny that I did and sold to Yahoo. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:33 Jeff Bonforte Sean, I wrote this, um, I wrote this presentation for Yahoo in 2006, and it was about what I call the emotional adoption curve and how angry customers was the biggest predictor of disruption for these embedded spaces.
How the smartest founders are winning in AI
- ▶ 14:47 Jason Lemkin There's on the one hand, it's a, it's a moat, just like being in the Google ecosystem is a moat, just like back being back in the day, being in the Yahoo ecosystem was a moat.
The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- ▶ 4:19 Shaan Puri You know, the way that search engines worked at the time was there were these, uh, Ask Jeeves, there was Alta Vista, there was Yahoo, and all of these companies back in the early nineties, they were, you know, search engines that had some…
- ▶ 24:28 Shaan Puri I wasn't surprised when he turned down a billion dollars from Yahoo, because all he wanted to do was rifle focus on a product that would actually reach everybody. 4 times in the scene
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 57:24 Shaan Puri You know, he worked at Yahoo briefly, like once he, you know, kind of graduated, and he was still just sort of always annoyed with this, like, this, like, friction that it takes to get set up, and so he, as a side project, created this… 2 times in the scene
Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas
We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit
- ▶ 6:21 Shaan Puri Was that like the old search engine that was kind of like this, like Yahoo Answers type of thing?
3 Anti-Comfort Businesses That Are Making Millions
The Cashflow King: “Here’s How I Do It”, Negotiating w/ Jeff Bezos, Elon’s Cracked Rocket
- ▶ 23:10 Shaan Puri Got an offer from, I think, Yahoo to sell for a billion dollars.
The Dark Story Behind Pornhub’s $1.5B Business Empire
- ▶ 2:33 Shaan Puri But the way that all porn sites worked was it was like Yahoo.
- ▶ 39:23 Shaan Puri It's more popular than Yahoo and Wikipedia and Twitter.
How This +$80M Founder Launches A Startup In A Weekend | ft. Noah Kagain (#546)
- ▶ 23:57 Noah Kagan This was Yahoo. 4 times in the scene
Ranking The Best And Worst Businesses To Start w/ Billionaire Investor Andrew Wilkinson (#386)
- ▶ 7:26 Andrew Wilkinson Tumblr obviously died post Yahoo acquisition.
9 Business Ideas To Profit From The 2022 A.I. Gold Rush (Using Dall-E & GPT3) (#376)
4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)
- ▶ 24:39 Shaan Puri He figures out one hack with the e-com thing, which was like back then, I think on Google or Yahoo or somewhere where people were searching for stuff, you could just sort by cheapest.
Drunk Business Ideas That Could Make You Millions
$1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It
- ▶ 8:30 Val Katayev At the time, you know, kind of like the, the modern day Yahoo page search, or back then it was called goto.com.
- ▶ 15:11 Val Katayev I was on CBS radio, AOL radio, Yahoo radio, last FM, like every, pretty much every music site.
Ariel Helwani Is Building His Own ESPN. He Already Has 1m+ Followers. He Tells Us How.
- ▶ 35:20 Shaan Puri One of the guys I got friendly with was Matthew Barry at ESPN, because he has a niche, which is fantasy football, and he was doing this, you know, before fantasy was sexy, and he was like convincing Yahoo and others, hey, go into fantasy.
Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- ▶ 24:56 Balaji Srinivasan That's because Terry Semel was at Yahoo. 3 times in the scene
Brainstorming Million Dollar Ideas with Elaine Zelby | My First Million Ep. #175
- ▶ 4:33 Shaan Puri So I think somebody who worked at Yahoo fantasy football, it should just basically fork everything they learned about how to make Yahoo fantasy football viral and be like, cool, I'm going to do that. 2 times in the scene