The Origin of Yahoo [Jerry Yang]

<p>The incredible origin story of Yahoo from start to $850m IPO in 2 years.</p><p>Source:<a href="https://greatness.floodgate.com/episodes/jerry-yang-how-yahoo-went-from-a-hobby-to-the-early-king-of-the-internet"> https://greatness.floodgate.com/episodes/jerry-yang-how-yahoo-went-from-a-hobby-to-the-early-king-of-the-internet</a></p><p><strong>Yahoo Origin Story<br></strong><br></p><p><strong>Jerry Yang: </strong>When the HTTP and the web and HTML came along, it was this moment of aha. All that information can be put together in a graphical way. That is point and click. You don't have to sit in and typing command line and hyperlink.</p><p>[00:00:15] So you just kept going. You could keep exploring as owns there's links to click on now. Moment for us to say, wow, this is going to be big because anybody can create a website and can link to other websites. So you don't need a lot of content to start. Right. You could just start and say, Hey, here's my Madonna website and here's five other ones.</p><p>[00:00:34] And it was totally decentral. There was no way of knowing who created what website, when and how was updated and things like that. So, so there were just websites out there. So there's websites that are popping up everywhere. And so we created a little, just the beginning when we called it hotlist and then David started writing the end to get it into more of a database format, more tagging or labeling more keywords and a more directory structure.</p><p>[00:01:00] And. Publish it onto a webpage in the front end. And so it was called Jerry's guide to the world wide web. And then. And I don't quite remember exactly when it was, has gotta be, early 94, mid 94. And then at some point I got sick of putting my name out there and David doing 80% of the work. So I put David and Jerry's guide to the world wide web, and then all hell broke loose.</p><p>[00:01:19] So we said, One night, let's not leave until we come up with a new name. Right. So I remember we were, at the office and God, it must've been midnight