
October 8th, 2004, 03:40 PM
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Yahoo founder offers advice to Google
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041008/152/f460z.html
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Yahoo founder offers advice to Google
Quote: Speaking during the Web 2.0 conference, the Yahoo co-founder said he told Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to relish their success. While his company and Google are in an escalating war to control the commercial search business, Yang still gave them kudos for making an impact on the Internet.
"I said to them, 'I hope they enjoy it,' because starting a company to this stage is a tribute to their vision and their leadership," Yang said. "To see what they've done is truly amazing."
Like Brin and Page, Yang and fellow Stanford classmate David Filo started a Web site that has become one of the most visited places on the Internet. One company went public this summer, becoming the most anticipated tech IPO since the dot-com crash. The other company was a poster child of the dot-com boom that watched its fortunes, and its stock, take a roller-coaster ride.
Yang pointed out that one difference between the companies was that Google had more time to germinate before going public, while Yahoo went public a year after the company launched. In retrospect, Yang thought the company may have gone public too fast.
Yahoo launched in 1995 and went public in 1996, months after Netscape Communications' IPO shepherded in the dot-com boom. Google went public as a highly profitable company, and resisted an IPO for many years |
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