today’s
word ✍️ - yell 📢😱🗣️ - scream and shout
color 🎨 - tangerine scream - #f2af0a
news 🗞️ - Zelensky meeting in Oval Office ends in yelling match (BBC)
startup 🏢 - Yelp (2004)
founded by Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons in SF
provides crowdsourced reviews for local businesses
generates revenue via ads, sponsored listings, and Yelp for Business
built the core app around star ratings, user reviews, and photos
allegations of review manipulation and aggressive ad sales tactics
raised $56MM over 6 rounds:
2004-03 - seed - unknown
2004-07 - series a - $1MM
2005-10 - series b - $5MM
2006-10 - series c - $10MM
2008-02 - series d - $15MM
2010-01 - series e - $25MM
publicly traded (NYSE: YELP) since 2012
scene 🎬 - Nightcrawler (2014) - yelling in the mirror
“golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five”
— Paul Harvey
made with ❤️ and GPT-4o in San Francisco on 2025-02-28