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15 facts from 10 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
1995
Bret Taylor compares company AI agents to the 1995 website, saying that in 1995 existing digitally meant having a website and a Yahoo directory listing.
“if it were 1995, you know, if you existed digitally, it meant having a website and being in Yahoo directory, right?”
1997
Scott Hassan, who helped code BackRub, co-founded eGroups, which Yahoo later acquired for about $400 million.
“Scott leaves, starts a company called eGroups. That company, a couple of years later, ends up getting acquired by Yahoo, becomes Yahoo Groups for about $400 million.”
2000
In June 2000 Google signed a deal to power Yahoo's organic search results, and Yahoo invested $10 million in Google.
“And Yahoo is going to invest $10 million in Google as part of this deal.”
2003
Yahoo bought Overture for $1.6 billion.
“Yahoo ends up buying Overture for $1.6 billion.”
2006
In 2006 Yahoo offered about $1 billion for Facebook and Zuckerberg's management team wanted to sell.
“in 2006, Yahoo wanted to buy the company for a billion dollars, and everyone on our management team wanted to sell it.”
2006
Mark Zuckerberg says Yahoo offered to buy Facebook for a billion dollars in 2006, and his management team wanted to sell.
“in 2006, Yahoo wanted to buy the company for a billion dollars and everyone on our management team wanted to sell it.”
2006
After Yahoo and Facebook shook hands on a roughly $1 billion all-stock deal, Yahoo reported a bad quarter and its stock fell 20%, cutting the deal's value.
“Yahoo announces their quarterly earnings, and they have a bad quarter, and the stock drops 20%.”
2007
Brian Acton and Jan Koum left Yahoo in November 2007 and took extended time off.
“Brian and Jan have finally kind of had enough and they both leave right at the same”
2008
In 2008 Microsoft pursued a Yahoo acquisition at up to $47 billion, but the deal collapsed after a meeting at Boeing Field.
“So in 2008, Microsoft puts a deal on the table that gets bid all the way up to $47 billion to buy Yahoo.”
2008
In February 2008 Microsoft bid $44 billion to buy Yahoo, and Yahoo's Jerry Yang turned it down.
“They make a bid, Microsoft does, to buy Yahoo for $44 billion.”
Undated
Jan Koum met Yahoo co-founder David Filo at an Apache security conference, which led to Koum's interview and hiring at Yahoo as an infrastructure engineer.
“he meets Yahoo co-founder David Filo. He's at an Apache security conference.”
Undated
Brian Acton, a Stanford computer science graduate, joined Yahoo as employee number 44.
“after graduation, he joins Yahoo as employee number 44 in the really early days”
Undated
Brian Acton became chief architect of Project Panama, a Yahoo project to re-architect how its search and search ads worked.
“He ends up becoming the chief architect of Project Panama within Yahoo”
Undated
Jason Calacanis says GeoCities sold to Yahoo for about five billion dollars and that Flatiron was its main investor.
“geo cities that sold yahoo for like five billion and i think four or five flat iron was the main investor”
Undated
Slovak says he began his tech career working on SOAP APIs at Yahoo, which he describes as rigid and heavily documented.
“I got started in tech working on soap APIs at Yahoo, right? Super rigid, super documented, you know, APIs.”
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