Yahoo
A company in the archive: 3 stories feature Yahoo. Each one is sourced and dated.
Stories featuring Yahoo
In the archive
- Facebook Paid $19 Billion for WhatsApp$250K→$19BSeed money → Facebook's price
Two former Yahoo engineers started WhatsApp with $250,000 from old colleagues. Five years later Facebook agreed to pay $19 billion for it.
- Yahoo Could Have Bought Google for $1 Million$1M→$402.8BAsking price, 1998 → Alphabet revenue, 2025
In 1998 Google's founders reportedly offered their search technology to Yahoo for $1 million. Yahoo declined. In 2017 Yahoo's core business sold for $4.48 billion. In 2025 Google's parent took in $402.8 billion.
- Stewart Butterfield's Two Failed Games Became Flickr and Slack~40 people→$27.7BTeam size → Sale price
Stewart Butterfield set out twice to build an online game. Both failed. The first left behind Flickr, which sold to Yahoo. The second left behind Slack, which Salesforce bought for $27.7 billion.
