FYI: For one brief shining moment, Yahoo was the king of all it surveyed. Then everything went to hell.
Everyone knows how the story ends.
In July 2016, 22 years after it began as a hobby for Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo agreed to sell its core operating business to Verizon in what Forbes writer Brian Solomon called “the saddest $5 billion deal in tech history.”
But few today recall how gloriously it began. Before Google or Facebook, Yahoo was the king of the internet.
Regards,
Ted
https://www.fastcompany.com/40544277/the-glory-that-was-yahoo
