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

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

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a good conversation and starting point on Yelp's alleged bullying of businesses.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Louis Rossmann
Topic
yelp business practices
Format
interview
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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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: [VIDEO]

    vco1 on Hacker News · 2018-11
    In Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site
  • 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. [VIDEO] may …

    james-skemp on Hacker News · 2020-04
    In Yelp lays off 1000, furloughs 1100

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