Yeah but in this case the diversity is a weakness. You can't replace Yahoo! because they don't do one thing really well, they do a bunch of things mediocrely well. What is the Yahoo! brand? What do they do anymore? No one really knows, even though they do a ton, so how could you even aim to replace them at all? At best you could aim to replace Yahoo mail, and that seems like a very reasonable (though still ambitious) startup goal.
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You can't disrupt Yahoo as a random 22 year old geek starting a company. The revenue streams and traffic base of Yahoo is extremely diverse.
Unless you plan to simultaneously disrupt web email, search, financial portals, sports, news, generalized all purpose portals, and on and on.
Yeah but in this case the diversity is a weakness. You can't replace Yahoo! because they don't do one thing really well, they do a bunch of things mediocrely well. What is the Yahoo! brand? What do they do anymore? No one really knows, even though they do a ton, so how could you even aim to replace them at all? At best you could aim to replace Yahoo mail, and that seems like a very reasonable (though still ambitious) startup goal.
I wonder how many people said these same words to Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in 1997.
And that was when Yahoo's brand meant something!
Thanks.