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20VC: Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on The Yahoo Turnaround Plan; What Needs To Happen | Leadership 101: The 4 Things To Look For When Hiring | Surviving a Crash; Biggest Advice on Cuts, Layoffs, Investor Communications

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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What Are the Commonalities in Your Turnarounds?

Yahu is a well known brand for short household name, but known, as you said, with as jeeves, is kind of an old school name. Is it just awareness that important? Or dis attractiveness? Yahu was never going to be fixed. It was too far down. Even when we were killing it in growth br i think were the only serchingin to gain market shure. We ere the only one of the 15 public company search engines that weren't the major portal to survive. But we were never going to turn that brand around. And become everybody's favored search engine. Ya was a very different situation. It legitimately has 900 million users a month,

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