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Yelp: History, Community, Art & Companies

Yelp Inc. is an American company that develops the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publishes crowd-sourced reviews about businesses. It also operates Yelp Guest Manager, a table reservation service. It is headquartered in San Francisco.

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Yelp topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Community, Art and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Yelp. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics
75
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
82
Extracted relationships
209
Concept neighborhoods
19
Bridge connections
82

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Company history · 36 topics
Controversy and litigation · 15 topics
Overview · 11 topics
Features · 10 topics
Relationship with businesses · 3 topics
Community · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
October 2004; 21 years ago (2004-10)
Founders
Jeremy Stoppelman · Russel Simmons
Industry
Local search, business ratings and reviews, online food delivery, local homeowner services
Owner
Jeremy Stoppelman (6.3%)
Headquarters
350 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Employees
5,168 (2025)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Company history

Features

Relationship with businesses

Controversy and litigation

Community

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Yelp connects Entity context

The extracted context around Yelp shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Yelp → According, An Australian, Asia, August, Austria, Both, By, Canada, Denmark, English, English Yelp, France, French, From, Germany, Google, In December, In June, International, It Another extracted example is Yelp → According, Angel, Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Burst, By, DAG Ventures, David Galbraith, Elevation Partners, February, Fortune, In, It, Jeremy Stoppelman, Max Levchin, MRL, MRL Ventures, November, PayPal, Real Reviews. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Yelp

Top relations

related to Private company (2009–2012) · 36
Yelp → According, An Australian, Asia, August, Austria, Both, By, Canada, Denmark, English, English Yelp, France, French, From, Germany, Google, In December, In June, International, It
related to Origins (2004–2009) · 28
Yelp → According, Angel, Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Burst, By, DAG Ventures, David Galbraith, Elevation Partners, February, Fortune, In, It, Jeremy Stoppelman, Max Levchin, MRL, MRL Ventures, November, PayPal, Real Reviews
related to Public entity (2012–present) · 28
Yelp → Also, Argentina, CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, Europe, European, French-based CityVox, German-based, Google Pigeon, Google's, Having, In, IPO, Japan, March, Mexico, New Montgomery, New York Stock Exchange, November, Over, PacBell
related to Community · 22
Yelp → According, As, Day, Each, Elite Squad, Elite Squad Yelpers, Elite Squads, Inc, Magazine, Many, Members, North America, Online Consumer Reviews, Review, Reviewers, The Discourse, The Yelp Elite Squad, To, Users, Yelp Elite
related to Astroturfing · 14
Yelp → As Yelp, Boston, Boston University, Eric, Filtered, Georgios Zervas, Harvard Associate Professor Michael, Luca, New York Attorney General, Schneiderman, Terms, The, Use, Yelp's
related to Litigation over review content · 12
Yelp → According, Alexandria Circuit Court, Also, Appeals, California, In, The, The Virginia Supreme Court, The Wall Street Journal, Virginia, Virginia Court, Virginia Supreme Court
related to Alleged unfair business practices · 10
Yelp → Favorite Reviews, In, Insert Business Here, Many, One, Others, Such, The, There, This
related to Features · 8
Yelp → As, Businesses, Day, In, Review, Some, The, Yelp's
related to Features for businesses · 8
Yelp → Advertisers, Business, Businesses, However, In, Originally, The, Yelp's
related to Relationship with businesses · 6
Yelp → Also, Berkeley, California, Harvard Business School, University, Yodle

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

reviews business businesses million review company users also 2014 yelp's reviewers 2012 advertising site services owners google 2010 negative san

Yelp relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 209 structured relationships around Yelp. Examples in this analysis include Yelp → Employees → 5,168 (2025) and Yelp → Founded → October 2004; 21 years ago (2004-10). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
YelpEmployees5,168 (2025)1.00infobox
YelpFoundedOctober 2004; 21 years ago (2004-10)1.00infobox
YelpFoundersJeremy Stoppelman1.00infobox
YelpFoundersRussel Simmons1.00infobox
YelpHeadquarters350 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.1.00infobox
YelpIndustryLocal search, business ratings and reviews, online food delivery, local homeowner services1.00infobox
YelpKey peopleJeremy Stoppelman (CEO)1.00infobox
YelpKey peopleJed Nachman (COO)1.00infobox
YelpKey peopleDavid Schwarzbach (CFO)1.00infobox
YelpNative client(s) oniOS, Android, Windows1.00infobox
YelpNet incomeUS$146 million (2025)1.00infobox
YelpOperating incomeUS$185 million (2025)1.00infobox
YelpOwnerJeremy Stoppelman (6.3%)1.00infobox
YelpProductsOnline advertising1.00infobox
YelpRevenueUS$1.46 billion (2025)1.00infobox
YelpTotal assetsUS$958 million (2025)1.00infobox
YelpTotal equityUS$711 million (2025)1.00infobox
YelpTraded asNYSE: YELP1.00infobox
YelpTraded asS&P 600 component1.00infobox
YelpType of businessPublic1.00infobox
YelpURLyelp.com1.00infobox
Yelpfounded in20040.95text
Yelpfounded byformer PayPal employees Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Yelp bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Added, Said and Owners. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • public company
    • April
    • Business
    • Million
    • Review
    • Site
    • Yelp's
    • Businesses
    • Also
    • Inc
    • Public
    • Yelp
    • Acquired
  • business incubator
    • Owners
    • Reviews
    • Yelp
    • Review
    • Reviewers
    • Local
    • Company
    • Negative
    • Yelp's
    • Employees
    • Inc
    • Public
  • online advertising
    • Services
    • Said
    • Negative
    • Reviews
    • Search
    • Online
    • Review
    • Businesses
    • Yelp
    • Also
    • Business
    • Company
  • harvard business school
    • Owners
    • Reviews
    • Yelp
    • Review
    • Reviewers
    • Local
    • Company
    • Negative
    • Yelp's
    • Employees
    • Inc
    • Public
  • company history
    • April
    • Business
    • Million
    • Review
    • Site
    • Businesses
    • Also
    • Inc
    • Public
    • Yelp
    • Acquired
    • Search
  • relationship with businesses
    • Reviews
    • Users
    • Review
    • Also
    • Feature
    • Negative
    • Yelp
    • Company
    • Advertising
    • Site
    • Inc
    • Business
  • review site
    • Site
    • Users
    • Business
    • Reviews
    • Based
    • Yelp
    • Said
    • Yelp's
    • Services
    • Owners
    • Website
    • Added
  • san francisco
    • San
    • Employees
    • Inc
    • Public
    • Local
    • One
    • Added
    • Search
    • Online
    • Advertising
    • Business
    • Services

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Yelp, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Yelp with Company history. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
YelpCompany history · splits 46 ⟂ 37
YelpControversy and litigation · splits 67 ⟂ 16
YelpOverview · splits 71 ⟂ 12
YelpFeatures · splits 72 ⟂ 11
YelpRelationship with businesses · splits 79 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Yelp

Nodes83
Edges82
Triples209
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.024096
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Yelp to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Community, Art & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Yelp · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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