Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web's homepage
Decoder with Nilay Patel
- Published
- March 16, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 17m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jul 5, 2026
Discusses Jim Lanzone is the CEO of Yahoo. It's basically impossible to sum up Yahoo's story over the last 25 …
Summary
Jim Lanzone is the CEO of Yahoo. It's basically impossible to sum up Yahoo's story over the last 25 years, but the short version is that once upon a time, Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and everything immediately went sideways. Jim calls it Yahoo's original sin. But after a long series of mergers, spinouts, and a hot, weird minute…
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Jim Lanzone is the CEO of Yahoo. It's basically impossible to sum up Yahoo's story over the last 25 years, but the short version is that once upon a time, Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and everything immediately went sideways. Jim calls it Yahoo's original sin. But after a long series of mergers, spinouts, and a hot, weird minute as part of Verizon Yahoo is once again an independent, privately held company — and it's growing. But can Yahoo really take market share from