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Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is an 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.
Jun 19, 2024 · About Jerry Yang. Yang cofounded web portal Yahoo in 1995 after dropping out of a Ph.D. program in electrical engineering at Stanford. Yang served as Yahoo's CEO from 2007 to 2009; he left...
Sep 30, 2014 · Jerry Yang is giving a quick tour of the conference room at his private investment firm in Palo Alto, Calif. It's dotted with gifts and photos from his 20 years in Silicon...
Jun 21, 2024 · Jerry Yang and David Filo first met when both were students at Stanford in 1989. Filo was a teacher’s assistant in a computer architecture class in which Yang was enrolled. Yang, a self ...
Apr 4, 2018 · We sit down with Jerry Yang, Co-Founder of Yahoo!, to discuss the early days of Yahoo!, how he met Jack Ma and pulled off one of the best investments in tech history, what he’s doing now, and how to win in China.
Jan 17, 2012 · Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo! nearly 17 years ago and had an ill-fated stint as chief executive, resigned on Tuesday from all of his positions with the struggling Internet company.
Industry: Computers & Electronics. Era: 1990. Yang and fellow Stanford University doctoral student, David Filo, created the precursor to Yahoo! to aid them in their use of the burgeoning world wide web. What began as a simple hobby eventually turned into one of the few success stories of the nineties Internet boom.
