Company History
Yelp introduced the first non-US version of its website here in January 2009
What is the United Kingdom?
This phenomenon of business owners and competitors writing fake reviews became more prevalent as the percentage of fake reviews rose from 6% in 2006 to 20% in 2014
What is Astroturfing?
The first is to grow the total number of Quality Projects to 8.2M per year.
The second is to grow the total number of Services Monetized Contact Connections to 32.1M per year.
What is are the goals of Services X in 2022?
This metric is often referred to as 1CE.
What is First Consumer Engagement?
With 14 direct reports, this person has the highest branching factor in Consumer
Who is William O'Connor?
The company achieved this entrepreneurial milestone for the first time in the second quarter of 2014, as a result of increasing ad spending by business owners and possibly from changes in Google's local search algorithm.
What is profitability?
A 2019 investigation by Vice News found that in some cases, Yelp was replacing restaurant's direct phone numbers with numbers that routed through this third party business.
What is Grubhub?
To make the end-to-end experience of finding, connecting, and hiring a service provider on Yelp best-in-class so that consumers choose to hire through Yelp over all other competitors.
What is the mission of ServicesX?
Though BOA can mean several things, this is what it means at Yelp.
What is a Business Owner Account?
This C-level exec has been at Yelp longer than any other, except for Jeremy.
Who is Jed Nachman?
This former PayPal employee, along with Jeremy Stoppelman founded Yelp at a business incubator, MRL Ventures, in 2004.
Who is Russell Simmons?
According to data compiled in 2014 by the Wall Street Journal, Yelp receives about six of these per month asking for the names of anonymous reviewers, mostly from business owners seeking litigation against those writing negative reviews.
What are subpoenas?
With 9% of monetized contact connections, this platform has the fewest MCC of the 4 platforms we target
What is Android?
These are the categories that together form the PERF in PLAH-PERF
What are Pets, Event planning, Real estate, and Financial
With an astonishing 40 teams, this department has the most.
What is Biz?
In 2012, Yelp moved into its new corporate headquarters, occupying about 150,000 square feet on 12 floors of 140 New Montgomery, formerly known as this building.
What is the PacBell building?
In September 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that even if Yelp did manipulate reviews to favor advertisers, this would not fall under the court's legal definition of this practice, used to gain something through force or threats.
What is extortion?
This is when someone picks up the phone, proxied by a call duration of more than 30 seconds.
What is a Quality Call?
The CCPI metric is the same as CTR*CCR. It can be improved by improving CTR or CCR more than the other is hurt.
What is Click Conversions Per Impression?
In April 2017, Yelp finalized its most recent acquisition of this Canadian Wi-Fi marketing company for $20 million.
What is Turnstyle Analytics?
In 2018, in the case Hassell v. Bird, this tribunal ruled by a narrow 4-3 margin that a business cannot force Yelp to remove a review, even if the review is defamatory of the business.
What is the California Supreme Court?
This person was featured as the first theme for ServicesX Show & Tell.
Who is Taylor Swift?
On the consumer app, YNRA is a shortening for this common term.
What is Your Next Review Awaits?
This is the team with the highest number of software engineers in all of Consumer!