Jim Lanzone - Everything in its Right Place for a Yahoo! Turnaround

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Jim Lanzone (CEO of Yahoo, former CEO of Tinder & CBS Interactive) joins Dan Nathan to pull back the curtain on one of the most fascinating turnaround stories in tech history. With 90% reach across the US internet and profitability that would make most public companies jealous, Jim explains why Yahoo is quietly dominating while the world isn't looking. They discuss the "original sin" deal in 2000 where Yahoo accidentally helped build the Google monopoly, the similarities between the Dot Com crash and today’s AI boom, and the exact playbook Apollo is using to revitalize the brand for a potential IPO. —FOLLOW USYouTube: @RiskReversalMediaInstagram: @riskreversalmediaTwitter: @RiskReversalLinkedIn: RiskReversal Media

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1:26.6	All right, welcome to the Risk Reversal podcast. I am Dan Nathan. I am here with a friend. Can I call you a friend? I think we can't. I mean, it's business. It is business right here, but we're friends outside of it. We don't have a mic or a camera on us. Jim Lanzone. He's the CEO of Yahoo. Jim, welcome to the podcast. Thanks for having me. So this is very fitting that you are here
1:45.5	because we are relaunching OK computer people that is OKAY computer. You might remember it. We did it from
1:51.8	starting in 21 here. And my very first guest was a mutual friend of art. She might have
1:57.4	introduced us, Katie Stanton, who's on your board. You guys go way
2:01.7	back. And she started, I think, her career in the internet, in the internet at Yahoo Finance.
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