Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web's homepage
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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.
New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Mili Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. Today I'm talking with Jim Lansone, the CEO of Yahoo. You've heard of Yahoo, you've probably used Yahoo Sports or Yahoo Finance or Yahoo Mail.
It's basically impossible to sum up the long, complicated, chaotic Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago, Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on website and basically everything has gone sideways since. You'll hear Jim refer to that deal as Yahoo's original sin, actually. After a long series of murders and spin-outs and a brief, extremely odd moment where it was part of Verizon, Yahoo is once again an independent privately held company, and it still has those big properties in sports and finance and email, where, against all odds, it's growing with young people. You heard it here first.
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