Yahoo - The Company That Threw Away Everything

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Once upon a time, Yahoo was one of the largest tech companies in the world with a market cap of $125 billion. They dominated everything from search and email to financial news and maps. But, since then, Yahoo has pretty much lost everything. In fact, Yahoo was recently sold to Apollo Funds along with AOL for just $5 billion. It’s easy to see this and think that this was primarily because of Google. After all, it was Google that displaced Yahoo in all of their dominant industries, but I would argue that Yahoo’s demise has more to do with their own poor choices. Yahoo actually had several opportunities to acquire not just winning companies but straight-up FAANG companies. They had 2 opportunities to buy Google, 1 opportunity to buy Facebook, 1 opportunity to buy Netflix, and 1 opportunity to sell themselves to Microsoft at a generous valuation but they turned down each and every one of these opportunities. This video explains the story of Yahoo and all of the opportunities they squandered along the way leading to the current sad state.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - The Peak Of Yahoo
2:05 - A Lucky Break
5:37 - Pure Incompetence
10:19 - The Shameful Demise

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[TheOneWhoKnocks]

Yahoo's decline is like watching a roller-coaster ride, except with no loops, just a slow and steady descent into irrelevance."

[eudofia]

Even if Yahoo had managed to buy Google, Facebook and Netflix, there is no guarantee that those three companies would have grown up to be what they are today. Maybe Yahoo would have messed them like it did to itself.

[advertise]

I worked at Yahoo! in the early 2000's. The high management was recruited mainly from media/TV networks. They were not focused on launching or improving web products. They did not understand Web technologies at all. They stayed in their comfort zone when the audience was big and got demoted, because of their lack of understanding and vision for Web Tech.

[Infinite]

While hindsight is 20/20, it's amazing how they kept buying companies that were doomed to fail and passing on ones that are worth hundreds of billions today. But in a way I guess it's a good thing. Imagine how different the internet landscape would be today if they were bought out.

[megalomedia]

Great work, really a fascinating business case.
Hard to believe that they fumbled the bag so often.

[kenkioqqo]

It's clear we would not have a Google or Facebook today if Yahoo had actually succeeded in buying them. They would have destroyed the two companies with poor decisions.

[lovenpeacelife]

This really shows how important it is to have a good leadership at the top.

[jakeadams]

Crazy story🤯

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[mizutofu]

It looks like they always went for the cheapest option, or try to haggle down the price as much as possible. This is what cost them everything.

[RFGSwiss]

The dramatic music has never been better suited than in this video. This video brought back a lot of memories and I learned a thing or two. Thanks Hari.

[WaleAnimashaun]

There's a little more to acquisitions than simply buying a good company. You have to structure the deal in such a way that improves the chances of success. Google and Facebook could have easily ended up like Overture and Tumblr if Yahoo had acquired them under the same agreement they had with their other acquisitions

[Thinkofsomethingnew]

Yahoo should just bring back their chat messenger and chat rooms, that will bring them back to their best again

[TrentAdam]

1:03 I actually think there's a lot of nostalgia for yahoo. I sure like seeing it still around. Nostalgia is worth a lot.

[jonathan.legend]

How do you turn down $45 Billion from Microsoft 🤦 Jesus. That would have made up for all their past mistakes

[LooneyFarmGuy]

We still have a Yahoo email account and we still use it . We get a lot of strange looks when we give out our Email . Dinosaurs they say 😂

[phuongha]

Yahoo bought one winner, Alibaba. But recently that’s not even doing well.

[TheAuronis]

When you see how Yahoo was managed it is really possible that even if they bought google and co they would have bust them, and the companies they bought would have maybe did really well if they didn't bought them

[LineDesign]

The part where you said, "Maybe Yahoo just has bad luck with Google" made me chuckle.

[stevejohnson]

Funny thing about yahoo is they would buy competing and complementary companies like geocities and egroups. Then they did no maintenance at all for 10 to 20 years. The sites got stale so they got closed. It was just one waste after another.

[Hollowdude]

Yahoo was different back then but now they are not popular now and great video man :]