Jul 15, 2025 · 56 min · 12 segments
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone joins Leadership Next to unpack the company’s bold transformation from a sprawling media conglomerate into a streamlined, product-first tech company. He shares lessons from…
Jim LanzoneGuest
Diane BradyHostKristen StolerHostOther than the journalism part of it, and I use it for, you know, I use Yahoo Finance to check stocks, I use it for stuff like that, I don't use it for search, I don't use it for anything else.
And I, it was kind of a brand that I had thought, you know, had its heyday back in the early 2000s and, uh, they had so many missed opportunities.
They lost the chance to buy Facebook, they, they missed out on, um, a bunch of other, other deals, and I, I just thought they were kind of stagnant.
So, how do you turn around a legacy brand that has become a case study in failure?
What does success look like? And it still has incredible traffic, so the bones, as he would say, are probably pretty good.
Other than the journalism part of it, and I use it for, you know, I use Yahoo Finance to check stocks, I use it for stuff like that, I don't use it for search, I don't use it for anything else.
And I, it was kind of a brand that I had thought, you know, had its heyday back in the early 2000s and, uh, they had so many missed opportunities.
They lost the chance to buy Facebook, they, they missed out on, um, a bunch of other, other deals, and I, I just thought they were kind of stagnant.
So, how do you turn around a legacy brand that has become a case study in failure?
What does success look like? And it still has incredible traffic, so the bones, as he would say, are probably pretty good.
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