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Jim Lanzone
Yahoo Inc.
EmployerYahoo Inc.
SpouseShannon[1]

James Lanzone (born January 20, 1971) is an American businessman and the CEO of

TVGuide.com, Last.fm and many others. He took over as president from Neil Ashe in March 2011.[2] Lanzone later became the first chief digital officer of CBS Corporation. Prior to joining CBS Interactive, Lanzone was the founder and CEO of Clicker.com, a search engine and discovery guide for Internet video and television funded by Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital, Geoff Yang of Redpoint Ventures, Allen & Company, Qualcomm Ventures, Slingbox founder Blake Krikorian and several others.[3] Clicker launched in beta at TechCrunch50 on September 14, 2009 and was acquired by CBS Corporation on March 4, 2011.[4][5]

Education

Lanzone graduated with a bachelor's degree in

Emory University Business School.[7]

Career

In 1997, Lanzone co-founded eTour, an early provider of information retrieval and cost-per-lead services on the Web. By 1998, eTour had become a top 50 website and the Web's #1 ranked site in user frequency (1998 & 1999).[8] Lanzone continued to serve as president of eTour until it was acquired by Ask.com (then known as Ask Jeeves) in May 2001.

In addition to Ask.com's purchase of eTour, Lanzone was hired to lead product management and later served as senior vice president and general manager of Ask.com. Ask.com was purchased by

IAC in 2005, and shortly afterward, Lanzone was named CEO of Ask.com. He held this position until leaving IAC in 2008 to join Redpoint Ventures as entrepreneur in residence.[9] Upon his departure, Barry Diller credited Lanzone as "the principal executive responsible for Ask.com's turnaround".[10] One of Lanzone's primary achievements as CEO was the overhaul and rebranding of Ask Jeeves (renamed Ask.com). Noted technology reviewer Walt Mossberg praised the new site as being "richer and better organized than typical Google results"[11] and "took greater strides than Google with their user interface",[12] while Chris Sherman of Search Engine Land called Ask.com the "Apple of Search".[13][14] Lanzone has also been credited by search engine expert Danny Sullivan for popularizing the search engine trend of going beyond "10 blue links," instead "providing direct answers and new ways to interact with search results," later adopted by Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines.[15]

During his time leading digital at CBS, Lanzone was best known for driving the development of the company's numerous streaming services,

Leslie Moonves as the first chief digital officer in the history of CBS Corporation.[20]

Lanzone departed

Yahoo, after the company was sold by Verizon to Apollo Global Management.[22]

Personal

Lanzone serves on the board of directors at GoPro[23] and the Newport Festivals Foundation,[24] producer of the annual Newport Folk Festival and Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. He is also an active investor in Houseparty, acquired by Epic Games; Resy, acquired by American Express; Aardvark, acquired by Google; Sapho, acquired by Citrix; Vurb, acquired by Snap; Tasty Labs, acquired by Walmart; Luvocracy, also acquired by Walmart; MasterClass; Thumbtack; Popshop Live and several others.[25][26][27][28]

See also

References

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  2. ^ Caroline McCarthy (2011-03-04). "CBS Interactive Hires Jim Lanzone as President". CNET. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
  3. ^ Brian Lam (2009-09-14). "Clicker: Like TV Guide for Web Video". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
  4. ^ "A Clicker To Watch TV Online".
  5. ^ "CBS Acquires TV Guide For Online Video Clicker, Jim Lanzone Named President Of CBS Interactive". TechCrunch. 4 March 2011. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  6. ^ "Entrepreneurship in Technology - An Evening w/ George Abe + All-Alumni Panel". UCLA Anderson. Apr 8, 2010. Archived from the original on April 3, 2012. Retrieved Apr 29, 2019.
  7. ^ Jim Lanzone; as told to Patricia R. Olsen (July 29, 2007). "I Fought the Law". The New York Times. Retrieved September 1, 2015.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "The Man Who Survived eTour, Grew Ask.com And Launched Clicker – with Jim Lanzone". Mixergy. 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
  9. ^ Barry Schwartz (2008-01-09). "Jim Safka To Replace Jim Lanzone As CEO Of Ask.com". Search Engine Land. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
  10. ^ SEO Roundtable profile
  11. ^ Walt Mossberg (2006-03-30). "Ask.Com's New Look Scores Big Points Against Search Rivals". All Things Digital. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  12. ^ "Mossberg, Ask.com "Goes Much Further" Than Google".
  13. ^ Chris Sherman (2007-09-07). "Search in the Year 2010". Search Engine Land. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  14. ^ Greg Sterling (2007-06-04). "Ask Relaunches: Now Ask 3D". Search Engine Land. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
  15. ^ "10 big changes with search engines over my 20 years of covering them". Search Engine Land. April 17, 2016.
  16. ^ "Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Jim Lanzone Leads CBS Interactive Into The Twilight Zone". Forbes.
  17. ^ "Architect of CBS's Streaming Strategy to Depart".
  18. ^ "CBS TELEVISION STATIONS AND CBS INTERACTIVE LAUNCH CBSN DALLAS-FORT WORTH".[permanent dead link]
  19. ^ "CBS Interactive Sets CEO Baton Pass From Jim Lanzone To Marc DeBevoise". 4 November 2019.
  20. ^ "Jim Lanzone Named Chief Digital Officer for CBS Corp". 13 June 2016.
  21. ^ "CBS Veteran Jim Lanzone Named Tinder CEO". The Hollywood Reporter. 27 July 2020.
  22. ^ "Yahoo Names Jim Lanzone, Ex-Tinder and CBS Interactive Boss, as CEO". 10 September 2021.
  23. ^ "GoPro Appoints Jim Lanzone to Board of Directors". investor.gopro.com. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  24. ^ "Our Team". Newport Festivals Foundation. Archived from the original on 2020-06-11. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  25. ^ "This Week in Startups". Archived from the original on 2011-01-03. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
  26. ^ Search Engine Land article on Aardvark on investors
  27. ^ AngelList: Tasty Labs
  28. ^ "AngelList". AngelList.

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Business positions
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Guru Gowrappan
Yahoo! CEO

2021–present 		Succeeded by
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Elie Seidman
 Tinder CEO
2020–2021 		Succeeded by
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 Chief Digital Officer
2016–2019 		Succeeded by
Marc DeBevoise
Preceded by
Neil Ashe
CBS Interactive president and CEO

2011–2019 		Succeeded by
Marc DeBevoise
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 Clicker CEO
2009–2011 		Succeeded by
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Steve Berkowitz
 Ask.com CEO
2006–2008 		Succeeded by
Jim Safka
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 eTour
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