Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman welcomes you to Team Antitrust

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 2:40 p.m.

Antitrust criticism of big tech companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon have been louder than ever \u2014 from the consumers to the tech companies who compete with them. Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman has been vocal for years about the problem with Google\u2019s dominant market share in maps, local search, and reviews.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been working on it for over a decade and it\u2019s great to see that more people have jumped on board.\u201d Stoppelman says. \u201cWhen we started out criticizing Google and highlighting some of their abuses, we got \u2014 especially from Silicon Valley \u2014 so many eye rolls.\u201d\nThe Verge\u2019s Nilay Patel and Casey Newton recently caught up with Stoppelman to discuss the evolving view of the media and the public on the tech monopolies, as well as how Yelp is handling their competition and what possible changes can be made with regulation from the government.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices