$YELP Tape Reports
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I never forgot what I saw. The number one rated doctor on Yelp spending 200 hours a month on paperwork.
Stein Pelle — The a16z Show · AI for America's Small Businesses | Lassie · 2026-07-30Yeah, I did not know that my American dream would look like this. It was interesting. Like, I was at Robinhood at the time, and I came to this country to start a company. So after 6 years, I moved from Amsterdam to Silicon Valley. Like, I was looking for a hard problem to solve. And then my doctor, Dr. Kwan, I was a patient there, so I saw him twice a year, as you do with a dentist, knew that I was looking for a hard problem. And he said, do you want to see how I run my business? And I said, absolutely. And he walked me to the back and I never forgot what I saw there. A small business owner that is the number one rated doctor on Yelp spending 200 hours a month on paperwork and busywork. So submitting claims by hand and he had to stick around himself because he couldn't find people to build the patients. So I'm like, wow, it's fascinating. This is a couple of years ago. So I thought that this was a solved problem because in the '70s my mom worked in hospital and that's what she did. She brought bags of cash to the bank and then processed payments by hand, but it wasn't a solved problem here. So that's why this piqued my interest.
Stein Pelle — The a16z Show · AI for America's Small Businesses | Lassie · 2026-07-30So it's a method in machine learning called active learning. Essentially what happens is we take a model that's okay, it's decent, and then we say scan this really, really large corpus of human-written text and find out which examples we have errors on. So, so what, and what this essentially does is it finds examples that are close to the boundary between human and AI. And then we take those and then we say for each of these documents, say it's like a, a Yelp review on Denny's, then we'll ask AI to also create a Yelp review about Denny's. In the same style. And then so now we have a human side and then an AI synthetic mirror. And so we train on these, the human example plus the AI synthetic mirror, and our model's able to learn the difference in stylistic choices between these two examples.
Max Spiro — The Vergecast · The one AI detector people actually trust · 2026-07-16You know, and just, like, talk about, like, is there common— Camp Social is one of a growing number of sleepaway camps for adults. I spoke to people of all ages, women in their 20s, 60s, 70s, even in their 80s. Some of these camps are aimed at women, others cater to LGBT+ people. There are camps that have more festival vibes, more wellness retreat. These types of getaways have exploded in popularity in recent years. In 2025, Yelp reported a roughly 350% increase in searches for these weekend breaks. And the trend is not unique to America. Similar concepts have popped up across Europe. Down by the lake, women were sunbathing on the sand, hanging out by the water, and I really wanted to work out why these camps were so popular. Something lots of people said, they wanted to get away from the stress and anxiety of today's world.
Rachel Maiman — The Intelligence from The Economist · Strait and narrowing: the Iran deal crumbles · 2026-07-15Yeah, I don't know if you— Mark, have you ever heard of Jack's Dining Room? He's this, he's this Instagram kid who goes around the world. He's like, I'm at this place in Italy with the best gelato. And there's like a, you know, amazing visual hook for Instagram where there's like this crazy gelato thing that he's about to try. He tries it and he just, he's trying to find the best foods of different genres in the best places around the world. And when I met him, I told him, I said, look, you're trying to cut these brand deals. Like, why don't Like, you should create the new Yelp because Yelp is this completely generic platform with everything. But if I trust you and I have trust as a service or curation as a service, human curation as a service, I would just, if I go to New York and I want the best ramen, I would trust Jack over Yelp.
Shaan Puri — My First Million · Brainstorming business ideas with a billion-dollar founder · 2026-07-10So let's, let's freeze frame on that. Okay. And now I'm like Professor Pinkus. I did, I created a class at Stanford around this, two classes, and the students still didn't do that great. So it tells me. Either my framework's not perfect or I'm not the best teacher, but let's, let's freeze frame on that. Okay, so let's do proven, better, new on Yelp. So we say, okay, well, proven is let's not fuck with anything about the way that Yelp displays listings, rates listings. Let's, let's do a legal copy of Yelp. It's, we're not gonna change it. We're gonna freeze and isolate and assume that Yelp has taken the time over the years to, to make that what the world wants most. Okay, so we copy that pixel for pixel. I mean, we copy their onboarding of a new user, everything. We copy it. Then we say, do we have anything that's better? Meaning 10 out of 10 users would say, fuck yes, that's what I want. Not Yelp. We probably don't have that. Okay. Better is actually really hard to get to. What we think is better is new. So we probably are just proven and then some new ideas. I think our new idea here is human curated, and probably can we human curate it first and get to, can we, can we take some slice, some verdict, some blade in a city? So we take, you know, Florence barbershops or, you know, Florence, maybe better is like coffee shops in Florence. We're gonna go do that ourselves and then put it side by side and test in some way and see whether people like ours better or not. Like there used to be tablet hotels, which was like a better version, cooler design hotels. Um, is that better or not? This is kind of the Brian Chesky way, do it by hand first. If people don't like it better, you do not pass go. There's no reason to even try to build this in software. If they do, then we can start to use AI and say, is there a way to use AI agents to automate this? But that's a very, very secondary. The first is, can we, can we get to a clearly better product experience? That's the hard part. That's the lightning in the bottle, not the AI. And then what I would tell Mark at 23 or 25 to do is just force yourself to do everything in AI right now. Like force yourself to code this to, you know, I've tried Vibe Coding. I personally find Cowork plus Claude Code easier for, or I get to more real things for myself. But force yourself to use it and see how far you can go creating agents as employees and other things. And then, and then do some like hire some in addition, hire some really cheap people who can just do some of this stuff by hand. You know, I would avoid founding a company around it. I would avoid hiring expensive engineers or people before I've connected all the dots.
Mark Pincus — My First Million · Brainstorming business ideas with a billion-dollar founder · 2026-07-10I think podcasters like us are well positioned because people know we're real human beings and like in a flood of endless content, you're just going to gravitate towards people you trust. I think this guy Jack is sitting on a goldmine of trust. So, so where do you get food recommendations today? Yelp. Yelp is the default answer. And it's like, dude, Yelp. Sucks. I've never seen anyone be like, God, I'm— I love Yelp so much. Like, you know, I trust Yelp so much. Yelp, Yelp always knows the best place to go when I want ramen in my city. And so I was like, this guy, I pitched him this idea. I was like, look, you're selling hats. Wonderful. You're selling these like $1,000, you know, fun private jet experience. I'm sure that's a blast, but it's obviously not that scalable as a business. I was like, you should create Jack's List as Yelp. You should try to compete with Yelp. You should create an app that I just say, I want the best burger, the best pizza, the best taco, the best ramen in any city, and you better have it. And it's your pick. It's like, here's number 1, maybe number 2 or 3, and that's it. That's the whole app. And I was like, that is what you should do with this trust, is you should go after Yelp.
Shaan Puri — My First Million · 5 ruthless business lessons from one week in NYC · 2026-07-07And then him and his business partner were like, ah, Yeah, but blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I was so convinced. I was like, actually, you know what? You're right. How about I just build it and you just let me use your name and face? All right. You just give me, you just give me the, I'll give you 20. You don't believe in it. Great. I'll give you 10, 20%. Like, let me build this because I'm so bullish on this idea that like he should create this as the, how do you do like a huge swing of like $500 million, you know, to $2 billion swing as a creator? Like, Every video you have gets 100,000 likes of people who are like wishing that they could go to this place. That's incredible. That's like, you know, that, that's an unbelievable, you know, 10 million people are watching you eat this froyo in Vermont. If that's really the best froyo in Vermont, like you should just create your list and curate it and have it be the trusted place. Way more trusted than Yelp. I think trust is sort of like, you know, gold right now.
Shaan Puri — My First Million · 5 ruthless business lessons from one week in NYC · 2026-07-07