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Yahoo and Google
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- 0:00Yahoo turned down Google, twice. This is
- 0:02Larry Page and Sergey Brin. 1998, two
- 0:05Stanford students with a search engine
- 0:07and no money. They took it to Yahoo.
- 0:08Yahoo told them to go start a company
- 0:10instead. So, they tried to sell it.
- 0:121999, [music]
- 0:13they offered Google to Excite for $1
- 0:15million,
- 0:16then dropped the price to $750,000.
- 0:18Excite [music] said no, so they built it
- 0:20themselves. By 2002, Google was the
- 0:22search engine everyone used. Even Yahoo
- 0:25ran on it. Yahoo came back. [music]
- 0:26Reports say the price was $3 billion.
- 0:29Yahoo walked away again. Two years
- 0:31later, Google went public. [music] Yahoo
- 0:33spent the next decade losing to it. In
- 0:352017, what was left of Yahoo [music]
- 0:37sold to Verizon for and a half billion
- 0:40dollars. Google is worth over $4
- 0:42trillion. The company Yahoo would not
- 0:44buy for [music] a million is now worth
- 0:46nearly a thousand Yahoos. Follow Vibe
- 0:49Economies [music] for more.
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