Co-founder and CEO of Yelp. YIMBY. Pro pedestrians, bikes, and transit.
San Francisco
Joined May 2007
- Today, Yelp filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. For years, Google illegally abused its monopoly in general search to dominate the local search and local search advertising markets. 1/2
- How @Google is destroying American society exhibit A. If user engagement & growth at all costs is your business model this is what your algorithms automatically push to people.
- Most office workers are never coming back to an office and the ramifications are enormous. Let’s dive in 🧵
- San Francisco's Prop K Facts: Great Highway closes 1-2 months out of the year for sand removal. The southern stretch will close for good in 2025. Prop K transforms a failing road into a coastal oasis that restores our environment. Vote Yes on Prop K! shorturl.at/bjskS
- A person was struck by a human driver in SF which is having a record year for pedestrian deaths (including a 4 yo in a stroller 2 weeks ago) and @nytimes chooses to highlight a brief ambulance delay. AVs have killed 0 people in SF, sorry NYTimes you’ve lost the plot.
- Google says stop pushing App downloads yet its own teams push apps using same "bad" designs. googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/07/google…
- Today, I shared with our teams that the future of work @Yelp is remote. It’s best for our employees, and for our business. 🧵 blog.yelp.com/news/the-futur…
- An Open Letter to States Considering Imposing Discrimination Laws officialblog.yelp.com/2015/03/an-ope…
- I’ve been on the lookout for troubled CRE and saw an interesting story yesterday…🧵 1/7
- Just read a bank’s economic outlook and not a single mention of the massive office space overhang 🧐. Lots of money in these building fueled by debt (sold by banks). Leases not getting renewed, income on these dropping that will trigger waves of defaults. A “big short moment”?
- Did you know there was, once, major opposition to the Golden Gate Bridge and Crissy Field? “Supporting this oceanside park is the right side of history”











