Jerry yang y david filo yahoo biography

American businessman (born 1966)

David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.

Early life and education

Filo was born in Wisconsin and was raised in Moss Bluff, Louisiana. He earned a B.S. degree in computer engineering at Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1990 at Stanford University.

Career

In February 1994, he co-created with Jerry Yang an Internet website called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web", consisting of a directory of other websites. It was renamed "Yahoo!" (an exclamation). Yahoo! became very popular, and Filo and Yang realized the business potential and co-founded Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo! started off as a web portal with a web directory providing an extensive range of products and services for various online activities. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. It is still one of the leading internet brands and, due to partnerships with telecommunications firms, is one of the most visited websites on the internet.

Personal life

Filo is married to photographer and teacher Angela Buenning, a graduate of Stanford (1993) and Berkeley (1999). They have one child, and live in Palo Alto, California.

In 2005, he gave $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University, for use in its School of Engineering.

The Filos have been major benefactors of both Stanford, especially its schools of sustainability and education, and Berkeley, primarily its graduate school of journali

David Filo & Jerry Yang
Founders of Yahoo! Inc.
Founded: 1995

"This company isn't really about technology; it's about solving people's basic needs for efficiency, effectiveness and simplicity."--Jerry Yang

"Don't put off until tomorrow what you can postpone to the day after." This parody of the old proverb could very well be the motto of Yahoo! Inc. co-founders David Filo and Jerry Yang. By following such a philosophy of procrastination, they not only created the world's most popular (and most profitable) World Wide Web search engine; they also made themselves multimillionaires in the process. Well, sort of.

The story of Filo and Yang's success begins at Stanford University, where the two doctoral candidates were involved in a project to create computer chips using computer-aided design. Both found the work less than exciting, and when their faculty supervisor took a sabbatical to Italy, the duo decided to take a little sabbatical of their own. Forsaking their academic work, they began spending most of their time surfing the Web.

This proved to be a delightful diversion from their engineering studies as they surfed the Net in search of new and exciting sites to explore. There was only one problem. Even though there were plenty of interesting sites, due to the Internet's lack of formal organization, finding them was akin to searching for a book in a library without the aid of a card catalog.

Time and again, Filo and Yang would find a site that interested them, then would be unable to locate it the next time they logged on. Frustrated at their inability to keep track of the good places they'd visited, Filo and Yang came up with the idea to provide a kind of road map for online users. They put together a list of their favorite sites, organized them into topics, then designed a search engine that made finding the right site as simple as typing in the right keywords.

In early 1994, they began posting their list online as "David and Jerry's Guide to the

Computer programmer and co-founder of Yahoo!

For other people named Jerry Yang, see Jerry Yang (disambiguation).

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yang.

Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese-born American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures. As of December 2024, Yang has a net worth of $2.6 billion.

Early life and education

Yang was born Yang Chih-Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan, on November 6, 1968. His mother was a professor of English and drama and his father died when he was two, by which time Yang had a younger brother, Chih-Kong Ken Yang. In 1978, his mother moved the family to San Jose, California, where his grandmother and extended family took care of the boys while his mother taught English to other immigrants. After moving to the US, Yang took the American name Jerry; his mother, Lily; and his younger brother, Ken. He says that he only knew one English word, "shoe", when he came to America, but became fluent in English in about three years.

During his time at San Jose, Yang attended Ruskin Elementary School, Sierramont Middle, and Piedmont Hills High School. He graduated from Piedmont Hills High School and went on to earn both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Stanford University in four years. He met David Filo at Stanford in 1989, and the two went to Japan in 1992 for a six-month exchange program, where he met his future wife, Akiko Yamazaki, also participating in the exchange program.

Career

Yang founded Yahoo! in 1994 and was CEO from 2007 to 2009. He left Yahoo! in

The future doesn’t look so bright when at age 10 the only English word you know is “shoe.” That is unless you’re Jerry Yang.

Yang moved to San Jose, California, from Taiwan in 1978 with his brother and mother after his father died.

“We got made fun of a lot at first,” Yang told Fortune magazine. “I didn’t even know who the faces were on the paper money.”

This spurred Yang to work harder. He mastered English in just three years, was elected student body president and graduated first in his high school class.

Despite working part-time to help support himself at Stanford, Yang acquired both his bachelor’s and master’s in just four years. But he left Stanford to run Yahoo! before he could complete his PhD.

While at Stanford, Yang and classmate David Filo ventured into the uncharted territory of the Internet. In 1994, searching through Web content was not unlike searching for library books. Yang and Filo created a directory of websites organized in a hierarchy rather than a searchable list. At first called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” they gave it the acronym Yahoo! for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”

Yahoo! was an overnight sensation and Yang, its “Chief Yahoo!” (CEO), became one of America’s wealthiest men. At one point, the company was worth $130 billion. It survived the dot-com bubble and subsequently diversified its activities. It acquired Four11 and its webmail, Rocketmail, which became Yahoo! Mail; ClassicGames.com became Yahoo! Games; and eGroups mailing lists became Yahoo! Groups. In June 2017, Verizon bought Yahoo’s core operating business for $4.48 billion.

In 2012, Yang left Yahoo! He is currently investing in the next generation of technologies at his firm AME Cloud Ventures, where he has invested in more than 50 startups. He is also investing in space travel and longevity research, two potentially high-growth areas.

Yang has kept a close connection to his alma mater. In 2007, he and his wife pl