The Lanzone That Time Forgot

Jim Lanzone Yahoo
"The only way we can operate is by assuming Yahoo should be here for another 30 years. There’s no sign that people don’t want these products. We’re growing. If you treat users and products right, you keep growing," says Yahoo C.E.O. Jim Lanzone. Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The MAKERS Conference
Dylan Byers
December 12, 2025

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For nearly two decades, Yahoo has been seen as both a relic and a running joke—a once-great internet power now preserved in amber, stuck somewhere between dial-up modems and the Google Search box it inadvertently helped midwife. And yet, despite its absurd rodeo-holler moniker, Yahoo maintains an enviable position: hundreds of millions of logged-in users, category-defining franchises in finance and fantasy sports, one of the largest email footprints on the web, and a performance advertising business that quietly outconverts nearly everyone but Google and Amazon.