‘If we don’t innovate, we die’: Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving a 30-year-old dot-com star

‘If we don’t innovate, we die’: Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving a 30-year-old dot-com star

The Signal InterviewYahoo was in retro mode as it celebrated its 30th anniversary this spring, with a kitsch “back to the ’90s” banner draped over the front desk of its New York office and images of CDs, cassette tapes and Rubik’s cubes hanging from the ceiling. Jim Lanzone has only been Yahoo’s CEO since 2021, but he embraced the flashbacks to a moment when the company was the cutting edge of internet startups.Since Yahoo founders Jerry Yang an…