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Jim Lanzone

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“And a lot of other small properties ultimately also AOL. We sold back in Q4. So on the one hand, it's about focus. And on the other hand, when it comes to properties like TechCrunching and Gadget, really if you think about what we do while we do media, it's really to provide context for the products that we're operating in those categories. We're not the place to go for breaking news. We're not the place to do that. And that's why in Gadget and TechCrunch found homes with in both cases families of brands that were either tech focused or media focused and really do that kind of journalism, which is really not what Yahoo does. I want to dig into that just one turn. I think we're not the place for breaking news that has a different valence. We can talk about that in the context of sports.”
2026-03-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web's homepage · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And really, the long story short of that is it went back to the original mission of the company, being the trusted guide to the internet in 1995 that meant helping you find websites. In 2026, it can mean all kinds of different things. But that's where we're strong. That's where we're still strong after all the things the company went through over the years. When we got here, there were still just a lot of things going on. We had a content delivery network business. The company had, I think, drifted very far into all kinds of media and away from its history as more of an aggregator and place to help you find where to go for that media. But between TechCrunch rivals, which we sold and gadget”
2026-03-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web's homepage · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The process since we were spun out of Verizon in September of 2021 of really rationalizing the portfolio and what makes sense going forward, I'm sure we'll talk about it. But that goes all the way back to, you know, why are we still here after all these years? What's our right to exist? What's our right to win?”
2026-03-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web's homepage · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Jim Lenzone, you're the CEO of Yahoo! Welcome to Dakoter. Great to be here. I'm excited to talk to you. My personal story is wrapped up in the thing that is now Yahoo that you operate. I once worked for AOL. It got smashed into Yahoo in a series of acquisitions. I know you are thinking a lot about what Yahoo is today and the future of the web and its relationship to the larger networks that we all operate on. So I think there's a lot to unpack there. I do want to start with my personal history at Yahoo because I got my start in tech journalism at NGadget at $12 a post when I was owned by AOL. This is a very odd time in media that that was a thing you could do. And just last week, you announced that you are selling in gadget to a thing called static media. Take me inside that decision to sell in Gadget. You just sold TechCrunch. What's going on here? Really? It was the last non-Yahoo brand to be sold. We've been.”
2026-03-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web's homepage · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm Neil Patel, editor in chief of the Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas. Today, I'm talking to Jim L CEO of Yahoo. You've heard of Yahoo. You've probably used Yahoo's. Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Mail. It's basically impossible to sum up the long Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago. Yah To run the search And basically, everything Since you'll hear Jim Yahoo's Actually, for a long series of murders and spinouts and a brief extremely odd moment where it was part of Verizon, Yahoo is once again an independ Company, and it still has those big properties. Email where against Young people. You heard it here Gen Z Growing Some Questions Still, the third Eng New A Is Google A good one when creat”
2026-03-16 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web's homepage · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT