Jeremy Stoppelman Quotes

In early 2008, it was confirmed that there would be an opportunity to build applications for the iPhone. We were fortunate enough to make the right call on that: to bet early, to put resources into it and have a pretty good application in the store at the moment when it opened.

I've been through a couple of mergers - they're not that fun. And it's easy to lose your focus on this grandiose mission you established for yourself as an independent company.

Choose something you are passionate about - or a pain point that has affected you and that you feel really needs to be changed.

Everyone is panicked about the transition to mobile. I don't lose any sleep whatsoever.

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.

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.

You want experimentation. Every once in awhile, you stumble upon something that blows your mind.

I don't feel necessarily it's winner-take-all across the globe, where there has to be one local guide for the entire world. We'll certainly do as many of these markets as we can.

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

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.

The biggest thing is to create a product that consumers find useful. As more and more people like something, it becomes harder and harder to have a conspiracy theory about it.

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

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.

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.

About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.

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

The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.

A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted.

You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.

On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.