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Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by ginko »

agloe_dreams wrote: post #6

What a weird name for a product. Even they need to tell you which Vespa they are. Like, when naming things...maybe not use a name that people use to define a category. (AKA: A Vespa is to Scooters as a PostIt is to sticky notes)

I'm surprized they haven't gotten a nasty letter from Piaggio yet.

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by ilickpoolalgae »

fermentation wrote: post #5
SpaceNoodled wrote: post #4

So what exactly does Yahoo do these days?

Seems really popular in Japan for some reason.

I don't think the Japanese entity and US entity have any relation to each other anymore. I think US entity divested itself of Yahoo Japan completely in 2018 or so. Yahoo Japan is now collectively owned by Softbank and Naver under some holding company (it was big news in Japan when the merger happened).

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by throwaway280383 »

SpaceNoodled wrote: post #4

So what exactly does Yahoo do these days?

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.

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by bartread »

agloe_dreams wrote: post #6

What a weird name for a product. Even they need to tell you which Vespa they are. Like, when naming things...maybe not use a name that people use to define a category. (AKA: A Vespa is to Scooters as a PostIt is to sticky notes)

And also pick something that's distinctive and easily Googleable. I'm tired of companies and products picking super generic names that mean I get swamped with spammy SEOd results every time I search for information/help/reviews/etc on them.

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by slimsag »

throwaway280383 wrote: post #14
SpaceNoodled wrote: post #4

So what exactly does Yahoo do these days?

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…

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

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by simonw »

Vespa has been around for a LONG time. When I worked at Yahoo back in 2005-2007 the Flickr team were using it to scale Flickr - they were integrating it in order to serve things like public tag pages, to take the load off their MySQL cluster.

I remember understanding it as the internal equivalent to something like Solr, although actually it predated it - looks like the first public Solr open source release (coming out of CNET) was January 2006.

Re: Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company

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Post by vinhboy »

throwaway280383 wrote: post #14
SpaceNoodled wrote: post #4

So what exactly does Yahoo do these days?

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…

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.
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