Yahoo, every mention
20 scenes, the whole family · ← back to Yahoo
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Geoff Ralston 6Paul Graham 5Paul Buchheit 4Mark Zuckerberg 2Vinod Khosla 1Liz Wessel 1Leah Culver 1Kevin Hale 1Jessica Livingston 1Garry Tan 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Yahoo comes up
The Best Consumer Startup Ideas Were Impossible Until Now · Y Combinator
Elon Musk: Digital Superintelligence, Multiplanetary Life, How to Be Useful · Y Combinator
Silicon Valley's Cargo Culting Problem · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:59 Dalton Caldwell Yeah, 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…
Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 21:05 Kevin Hale And they had built and sold the first SaaS company, uh, that was via web to Yahoo.
Vinod Khosla : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:15 Vinod Khosla We hired Carol Bartz, who ran Autodesk, and then Yahoo.
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:44 Paul Buchheit Um, I mean, like eBay, Netscape, like that first generation, Yahoo, all of that first generation of internet companies, they, they had already
- ▶ 10:48 Paul Buchheit Um, and then when we started really like, like when we got the Yahoo deal and started like really displacing.
- ▶ 31:49 Paul Buchheit There's a really interesting, and this is before my time, but, um, you know, back when they were just a college social network, they had something like ten million users, which for a social network isn't that much, and Yahoo wanted to buy…
A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
SEO Advice from SurveyMonkey Director of SEO and Growth, Eli Schwartz · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:44 Eli Schwartz So at the time there was Yahoo and a bunch of other crawlers and indexers and search engines, if you want to call them that.
A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:48 Geoff Ralston So, um, you and I got to know each other, strangely, at a, um, it was kind of a startup at the time, Yahoo, back in the late nineties. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00 Paul Graham Do you guys know he wrote Yahoo Mail? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:08 Geoff Ralston How did you come up with this idea for, for ViaWeb, the company that Yahoo bought?
Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:39 Jessica Livingston Um, he'd moved back to Cambridge after selling his startup via web to Yahoo, and he was at the time writing essays, working on programming languages, publishing a book, and curing his debilitating fear of flying by learning to hang glide,…
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:59 Liz Wessel But anyway, Robbie Stein has started a really cool company called Stamps, sold that to Yahoo.
Andy Bromberg - Startup Investor School Day 4 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:16 unnamed speaker I mean, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Netflix, all of those, there's quite a bit of market cap if you add those up together.
Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:53 Geoff Ralston Which sucks for me because I was part of the team that invented Yahoo Mail, so we have a lot of good conversations.
- ▶ 5:41 Paul Buchheit 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.
Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:21 Leah Culver So it was fun to work with folks from like Google, Yahoo, Mint.com, like financial institutions, um, who definitely had more at stake in terms of, rather than I was working on a social network at the time, a little less at stake, um, than…
Mark Zuckerberg : How to Build the Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:53 Mark Zuckerberg One of the hardest parts for me was, um, was actually when Yahoo offered to buy the company for, for a lot of money, because up until that point, that was the turning point in the company, where before that we, ah, every day we'd just come… 2 times in the scene