The Rise and Fall of Yahoo: How Greed Destroyed an Internet Giant

Title: The Rise and Fall of Yahoo: How Greed Destroyed an Internet Giant Yahoo was once worth about $120 billion. In 2017 its core business sold to Verizon for $4.48 billion. In between, it had the chance to buy Google, to buy Facebook, and to sell itself to Microsoft for $44.6 billion. This documentary follows those decisions and asks why Yahoo kept pricing its future by its past. In this video: How two Stanford students turned a list of links into Yahoo The 2000 peak, and the dot-com crash that followed Why Yahoo used Google’s search, then reportedly passed on buying it in 2002 The Panama delay and the reported Facebook offer in 2006 The “Peanut Butter” memo Microsoft’s $44.6B bid, and the $33 vs. $37 standoff in 2008 The CEO churn, Tumblr, and the Alibaba stake that hid the decline The data breaches, the Verizon sale, and what Yahoo is today 📚 SOURCES Yahoo Form 10-K (FY2000) and SEC filings (Verizon deal, Feb 2017), CNN Money, TechCrunch, Fortune, Wired (“How Yahoo Blew It,” 2007), NPR, NBC News, AP, MediaPost, Dark Reading. If you enjoyed this, subscribe for more business rise-and-fall stories. yahoo, yahoo history, rise and fall of yahoo, why yahoo failed, yahoo documentary, yahoo microsoft bid, yahoo google, yahoo facebook, jerry yang, david filo, marissa mayer, steve ballmer, yahoo verizon, yahoo alibaba, business documentary, tech history, dot com bubble, company collapse #Yahoo #BusinessHistory #Documentary #TechHistory #Microsoft #Google #Facebook