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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.
3 days ago · 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...
Jun 21, 2024 · The story of Yahoo began with a “B.”. 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 ...
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...
Aug 30, 2023 · Jerry Yang, who has served as chair of Stanford’s Board of Trustees since 2021, earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1990.
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.
Jan 17, 2012 · Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang, who started the company 17 years ago, announced Tuesday he is retiring from the board and from all his other positions, reports MarketWatch.