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Yelp's response: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2009/02/kathleen-richards-east-bay-express.html http://officialblog.yelp.com/2009/02/kathleen-richards-east-... A
by yan 18y ago
Yelp's response: http://officialblog.yelp.com/2009/02/kathleen-richards-east-bay-express.html http://officialblog.yelp.com/2009/02/kathleen-richards-east-...
Also, their founder has been active on twitter: http://twitter.com/jeremys http://twitter.com/jeremys
- ojbyrne 18y agoSo? He denies it, engages in character assassination, and uses a (presumably) co-conspirator to provide supporting evidence. I heard about this two months ago. Never overestimate the integrity of a CEO.
- yan 18y agoI am not taking sides, just providing references to relevant information.
- d13hard 18y agothey haven't had integrity for a long time. sadly for their VCs, it is becoming universally understood that this site is local-payola, it will be impossible for them to earn back that trust now. VCs need to drill "don't be evil" into their firms earlier.
- ucdaz 18y agoNow he knows how business owners feels to receive a bad review.
- jonmc12 18y agoHe attacks the article instead of making straightforward statements about his business. I'm really surprised he did not take the opportunity to address the claims that Yelp manipulates content.
- michaelneale 18y agoIt kind of implied to me that they do. Or at least did in the past (ie > 1 day ago !).