It’s actually enjoyable and actually significant to be a part of Yahoo and Yahoo Finance – which as as my outdated eBay teammate Dave Lu notes – has performed an vital function for thus many and for thus a few years. It is…

I began my profession in tech 26 years in the past at a bit firm with a foolish identify: Yahoo! (we at all times used the exclamation mark and I nonetheless do right this moment). To at the present time, it’s nonetheless among the finest work experiences of my lifetime.

I labored on Yahoo! Finance, the #1 finance web site on this planet again then, and nonetheless one of many greatest finance websites right this moment. When I joined there have been solely about 1,000 workers, which nonetheless one way or the other felt small and intimate.

I used to be fortunate sufficient to work for a significant tech firm based and led by a fellow Taiwanese American, Jerry Yang, who impressed me each time I noticed or interacted with him.

I cherished that every one of my fellow finance majors from Wharton had been utilizing our product every single day on Wall Street. I began my tech profession as an affiliate product supervisor (we used to name them producers). Back then, I may push out HTML modifications to manufacturing for hundreds of thousands of customers with out code opinions or conferences.

Our group was small however nimble, and it felt like household. Justin Wong and I had been pre-MBAs closing million greenback offers with Intuit and H&R Block. Stacie Cheng and I had been shopping for advertisements within the The Wall Street Journal. I might ultimately begin my first firm with my colleague David Papandrew. It was invigorating to be engaged on one thing utilized by so many individuals world wide.

Yahoo! Finance was the most effective finance website in 1999 and continues to be on prime in 2025. It is a testomony to the product and tradition we created again then that it has continued to face the take a look at of time. Not many web sites keep related for greater than ten years a lot much less 25.

And now my good friend and former colleague from eBay, Ryan Spoon, is the President of Yahoo Media Group, which incorporates Yahoo Finance. Since taking up, he is made main strikes like partnering with Polymarket and bringing on Sean Mills who previously led content material at Snap Inc., Now This and The Onion. I do know that Yahoo Finance is in good arms with Ryan, and can proceed to remain on prime for years to come back.

I’ll at all times look again fondly on my purple and gold days in Santa Clara/Sunnyvale.

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