Podcast Episodes featuring Jeremy Stoppelman

Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman

How I Built This with Guy Raz - June 24, 2019 04:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 29.2K ratings
In 2004, two former Paypal engineers, Jeremy Stoppelman and Russ Simmons, were spit-balling new internet ideas. Out of their brainstorm came a site where you would email your friends asking for local business recommendations. The launch was a flop, but they discovered that people seemed ...

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman: Silicon Valley has 'lost its purpose'

Decoder with Nilay Patel - April 11, 2018 04:08 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about the phenomenon of techlash and why people are just now "waking up" to Silicon Valley's dark side. Stoppelman's company has feuded for years with its much larger rival Google, which Yelp says has unfairly weighted local search resul...

Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp CEO; Virtual Reality Shenanigans

Decoder with Nilay Patel - December 21, 2015 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman talks with Kara Swisher about spending a decade at the helm of the local-recommendations site, and the new challenges posed by private companies that can out-raise the public Yelp. He also explains why he thinks quasi-competitor Google has ?lost its mind.? Later on: Kar...

Jeremy Stoppelman

From Scratch with Jessica Harris - June 18, 2015 22:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
Yelp provides user-generated reviews of local businesses through its website and mobile app. Its contributors provide their opinions on a variety of businesses, ranging from clothing stores to restaurants. Prior to launching Yelp, Jeremy worked at Paypal. Yelp went public in 2012. Jeremy speaks w...