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

138K views · Mar 30, 2018 · 31:24 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2018–2020

Louis Rossmann interviews Kaylie Milliken and Mellissa Wood, producers of the documentary Billion Dollar Bully, about Yelp's alleged practices toward businesses.

Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as a good conversation and starting point on Yelp's alleged bullying of businesses.

“he talks with two of the people behind the movie Billion Dollar Bully.”HN comment, 2020

What Hacker News said 3

Recommendsvco1Nov 2018

“a great interview with some people who made a documentary about yelp practices of bullying businneses to join their service”

Interview with documentary makers about Yelp bullying businesses.

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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

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Recommendsjames-skempApr 2020

“he talks with two of the people behind the movie Billion Dollar Bully.”

Conversation with two people behind Billion Dollar Bully; better starting point.

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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 company a bad name. For-profit businesses, especially ones that want everyone to use them, generally don't like to talk about the fact that some part of why they exist is for the money and/or they have stakeholders that want to see a return on their investment. It's also possible that Yelp has since gotten better, and they're still fighting off the old perspectives. Not OP so not sure where their evidence came from. (I personally rarely use Yelp, don't have an account, and prefer the reviews built into Google Maps since that's my navigation app of choice. I didn't know about issues with Yelp until I was subscribed about the above, and after unsubscribing numerous months ago haven't heard anything else about Yelp until now.)

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Cites itseltzered_May 2018

“(recent interview with the film creator)”

Interview with the makers of the Billion Dollar Bully documentary.

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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)

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