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Billion Dollar Bully: Yelp documentary producers Kaylie Milliken & Mellissa Wood

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Louis Rossmann interviews the producers of the documentary Billion Dollar Bully about Yelp's alleged extortion of small businesses.

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vco1on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site”

I've always enjoyed Louis Rossmann yelp rants. A week ago he posted a great interview with some people who made a documentary about yelp practices of bullying businneses to join their service Link: link to this video
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On “Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100”

Just pointing out what I had heard when I was subscribed to someone who had experiences with Yelp. Honestly, I found his latest video on the subject, after searching for 'yelp extortion,' which doesn't appear to be the best one to start with. link to this video may be better, as he talks with two of the people behind the movie Billion Dollar Bully. (I didn't re-watch it completely, as I don't want to get myself wrapped back up in his world.) As it notes in link and the above, if Yelp's culture means that employees are getting away with it, and sharing that, and tend to work with people who aren't web-savvy, there's certainly the opportunity for certain individuals within the company to give the compa…
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seltzered_on Hacker News • Mentions

On “CBS “60 Minutes” piece on Google’s abuse of dominance”

Only sharing for reference, you reminded me that someone made a documentary ('billion dollar bully') about this (not released yet, but supposedly being premiered soon): link link link to this video (recent interview with the film creator)
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