Yahoo, Internet portal

The Wired posted that in September 2021, Jim Lanzone took over a company whose name once represented the booming entrepreneurial spirit of the Internet, but which had been reduced to a joke over the years: Yahoo! Some thought Lanzone had zero chance of success. Forbes contributor George Blatt wrote, "It's hard to believe there's anyone else on the planet who would want to take over this position from him." But Lanzone saw things differently. In his view, Yahoo was an unrecognized gem. He said, "If you could take the name Yahoo off the company and look at 2021...