Billion Dollar Bully: Yelp documentary producers Kaylie Milliken & Mellissa Wood
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a good conversation and starting point on Yelp's alleged bullying of businesses.
What it is
Louis Rossmann interviews Kaylie Milliken and Mellissa Wood, producers of the documentary Billion Dollar Bully, about Yelp's alleged practices toward businesses.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2018 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends vco1 · 2018-11 · 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: [this video]
Recommends james-skemp · 2020-04 · 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. [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
Cites seltzered_ · 2018-05 · 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] [this video] (recent interview with the film creator)