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Ex-yahoo here (Quit in 2022, at the height of salary boom :) Yahoo is a profitable company with atleast 5B $ in revenue. Search and Mail are extremely profitab

Ex-yahoo here (Quit in 2022, at the height of salary boom :) Yahoo is a profitable company with atleast 5B $ in revenue. Search and Mail are extremely profitable businesses. When was the last time you changed your mail id? Search is atleast 2B $ plus in revenue. Mail is 1B $ plus in revenue. Yahoo Finance, Yahoo sports, yahoo news are all highly trafficked websites although I dont know the revenue numbers. I do wager that if yahoo is put on stock market, its valuation will be around $10B although private equity has spent only 4B$ on acquiring them. Who knows what went into the discussions. Why did I leave? Because I figured my career growth is elsewhere. One thing I learnt at yahoo is that large companies take a very long time to die . You can have a profitable career in them, even if YoY growth is slowing.

slimsag 3y ago
Wow, search.yahoo.com actually looks kind of nice/snappy
- febeling 3y ago
  indeed. Shows again the milliseconds really count
- rgrove 3y ago
  It always has! This is one of Yahoo's best-kept secrets, sadly. (I worked on Yahoo Search — and search.yahoo.com — from 2007 to 2010)
- dathinab 3y ago
  and in difference to google you don't get swamped by ads that much, I mean the search results seem seriously better then 2023 google...
- gardenhedge 3y ago
  search results page isn't even responsive. Because I am using vertical tabs I need to scroll sideways..
- nashashmi 3y ago
  It works without JS!
vinhboy 3y ago
Yahoo home page is actually very engaging (in a car wreck kind of way), and they haven't updated it much in years. I definitely believe they are doing well.
Irishsteve 3y ago
for comparative purposes snap do 4b a year and are a bit flat, same as Pinterest. Last 10k I saw from yahoo is 2016 where they also did 5b top line.
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parthdesai 3y ago
>When was the last time you changed your mail id? I get this sentiment, but I don't know anyone in my age group (late 20s/early 30s) that use yahoo mail either. My dad did use yahoo mail, but i'm guessing it has about 20 years left.
- throwaway280383 3y ago
  Most growth currently is international. Remember, gmail doesn't work in China :)
  - simfree 3y ago
    Which Yahoo services work in China?
  - 90-00-09 3y ago
    Interesting point but makes me wonder whether it's meaningful. There are plenty of local Chinese email providers, why would anyone choose Yahoo specifically?
    - ComputerGuru 3y ago
      Speaking as someone that lived in a non-Western country: specifically because it is a recognizably western and non-Chinese brand.
Tommah 3y ago
> When was the last time you changed your mail id? In 2006, when I moved from Yahoo Mail to Gmail.
chinchilla2020 3y ago
Yahoo Finance is still the best
quickthrower2 3y ago
> When was the last time you changed your mail id? 19 years ago, the minute gmail offered a better alternative to Yahoo!
- throwaway280383 3y ago
  Good. Similarly there are people who are happy with Yahoo and stuck with it since a long time. Overtime, all the most important/common features in Gmail are also in Yahoo.

slimsag 3y ago

Wow, search.yahoo.com actually looks kind of nice/snappy

febeling 3y ago
indeed. Shows again the milliseconds really count
rgrove 3y ago
It always has! This is one of Yahoo's best-kept secrets, sadly. (I worked on Yahoo Search — and search.yahoo.com — from 2007 to 2010)
dathinab 3y ago
and in difference to google you don't get swamped by ads that much, I mean the search results seem seriously better then 2023 google...
gardenhedge 3y ago
search results page isn't even responsive. Because I am using vertical tabs I need to scroll sideways..
nashashmi 3y ago
It works without JS!

vinhboy 3y ago

Yahoo home page is actually very engaging (in a car wreck kind of way), and they haven't updated it much in years. I definitely believe they are doing well.

Irishsteve 3y ago

for comparative purposes snap do 4b a year and are a bit flat, same as Pinterest. Last 10k I saw from yahoo is 2016 where they also did 5b top line.

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parthdesai 3y ago

>When was the last time you changed your mail id? I get this sentiment, but I don't know anyone in my age group (late 20s/early 30s) that use yahoo mail either. My dad did use yahoo mail, but i'm guessing it has about 20 years left.

throwaway280383 3y ago
Most growth currently is international. Remember, gmail doesn't work in China :)
- simfree 3y ago
  Which Yahoo services work in China?
- 90-00-09 3y ago
  Interesting point but makes me wonder whether it's meaningful. There are plenty of local Chinese email providers, why would anyone choose Yahoo specifically?
  - ComputerGuru 3y ago
    Speaking as someone that lived in a non-Western country: specifically because it is a recognizably western and non-Chinese brand.

Tommah 3y ago

> When was the last time you changed your mail id? In 2006, when I moved from Yahoo Mail to Gmail.

chinchilla2020 3y ago

Yahoo Finance is still the best

quickthrower2 3y ago

> When was the last time you changed your mail id? 19 years ago, the minute gmail offered a better alternative to Yahoo!

throwaway280383 3y ago
Good. Similarly there are people who are happy with Yahoo and stuck with it since a long time. Overtime, all the most important/common features in Gmail are also in Yahoo.