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Walmart paid $16 billion for a company that had never made a profit. They weren't buying our P&L. They were buying access to 1.4 billion consumers.
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Google offered us $500 million in 2009. I said no. People thought I was crazy. But I believed Yelp could be worth more on its own — and it was, until Google decided to build their own version and embed it in every search.