Stoppelman Yelp Quotes & Sayings

During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.' Well - the whole planet is now fubar with postwar miracles, but, back in the early 1960s, I was one of the first persons to be totally wrecked by one - an acrylic wall-paint whose colors, according to advertisements of the day, would ' ... outlive the smile on the "Mona Lisa".'
The name of the paint was Sateen Dura-Luxe. Mona Lisa is still smiling. — Kurt Vonnegut

When you read reviews on Yelp, you get a good sense of what's going to happen when you walk in the door of that business. The challenge is that there are fifteen million businesses in the U.S., and its very hard to communicate with all of them about how Yelp works, and why it works the way it does. — Jeremy Stoppelman

Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another. — Jeremy Stoppelman

When Yelp first took off, our rankings on Google would fluctuate wildly. — Jeremy Stoppelman

There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn't recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp. — Jeremy Stoppelman

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. — A. B. Yehoshua

There are so many businesses that are succeeding on Yelp that don't pay us a dollar, and we're really excited about that. — Jeremy Stoppelman

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. — Henry Ward Beecher

Yelp has been in this business since it really became something worth thinking about in 2004, when the transition started happening from the world of the Yellow Pages to the world of searching online for local information. — Jeremy Stoppelman

That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again. — Yasmin Paige

Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones. — Jeremy Stoppelman

I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps mundane answer, but my family was blown apart at the start of World War II. — Herb Kelleher

Rhubarb, I would have proposed when you were in pigtails and bobby sox. — Dee Tenorio

The brain heals the past like an injury ... — Arthur Miller

Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends. — Jeremy Stoppelman

Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities. — Reid Hoffman

In the very beginning, Yelp started as a service where we really didn't think people would write reviews for fun. The whole concept of user-generated content was pretty nascent in 2004. — Jeremy Stoppelman

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball. — Katarina Witt

Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life. — Taylor Swift

I think by paying attention to the feedback that you get on Yelp, you can very quickly integrate it into your business ... The really savvy folks out there, they don't necessarily take anything negative personally, but use it as constructive feedback and adjust their business. — Jeremy Stoppelman

There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is it's the whole picture that counts. — Jeremy Stoppelman