Yahoo
includes Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Groups
4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 16, 2016 by Mark Zuckerberg · said 28 times in 15 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Geoff Ralston (6), Paul Graham (5), Paul Buchheit (4), Mark Zuckerberg (2), Vinod Khosla (1), Liz Wessel (1), Leah Culver (1), Kevin Hale (1)
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2018 21 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
- SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator
- Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2018 →
2016 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Yahoo, oldest first
Aug 16, 2016
Mar 7, 2018
Buchheit: Google founders tried to sell for $1M to Yahoo and Excite
“Larry and Sergey were PhD students there. And they actually wanted to continue being PhD students and, like, finish their degree, so they went off and tried to sell Google to one of the big internet companies of the time, so, you know, Yahoo, Xsite, Infoseek. …”
Oct 24, 2018 negative
Buchheit: Early search rivals failed because they did not know what they were doing
“When we started really just like pushing all, just crushing all of the other search engines, and then there was like a feeling of inevitability. Like it was pretty clear we were just gonna win because no one else, Like, they just didn't even know what they wer…”
Jun 30, 2023 positive
Caldwell: Pre-Google conventional wisdom wrongly treated search as a commodity
“I think that the conventional wisdom pre-Google was that search was a commodity, and that Yahoo was good enough, and that incremental engineering breakthroughs in search wouldn't matter, and Google disproved that where it was actually a hard technical problem,…”