# Yahoo- 1994-March 2000

An episode of [Great Business Stories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1728626597), 25 Feb 2026, 29 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/f62e45f4/podcast/play/115924856/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-1-24%2Ff3b1195d-0018-23f5-cb70-ba060f591e9d.mp3

Regular listeners will know that I have a special grá as we’d say in Ireland or a love for the whole internet bubble era- it’s when I first got into business and it was such a wild time, and the yahoo story encapsulates this so brilliantly- 2 guys working on a hobby and within just 4 years their hobby is worth $100 billion, helped in no small way by an unheard of $100 million investment from Masayoshi Son of SoftBank, they turn down the opportunity to buy Google for just $1 million but do buy lots of other companies at crazy valuations- it’s a cracking story- enjoy.

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