Funny. I made a similar comparison with Facebook. PG said that Yahoo was a de facto pyramid scheme, although ponzi scheme is a better analogy: http://blog.jpe

Funny. I made a similar comparison with Facebook. PG said that Yahoo was a de facto pyramid scheme, although ponzi scheme is a better analogy: http://blog.jperla.com/facebook-is-a-ponzi-scheme-0 http://blog.jperla.com/facebook-is-a-ponzi-scheme-0 >> By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto pyramid scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of "Eureka!" I was shouting "Sell!"