Silicon Valley Watcher
“Interview with Michael Yang CEO of Become.com–a stealth Google in the making?”
By Tom Foremski
February 27, 2006
It was good to catch up with Michael Yang recently, the CEO of Become.com, a comparison shopping search site. This is a stealth Google in the making and that’s good–because in this new rules world you don’t want to get on someone’s radar screen too early.
I first met Mr Yang and his team about a year ago. It was one of those dinner events where my plan was to pop in and stay a short time because of an already full day running around Silicon Valley. I stayed much longer.
I stayed because it is an impressive team, and one that rode through the last bubble with the MySimon comparison shopping site, later sold to Cnet. Now the core of the team is back and this time they know how to play and win, and this time potentially win big.
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