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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.
4 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 Yahoo's ...
Sep 30, 2014 · When the official history of Silicon Valley is (re)written, it will be hard to judge which of Yang's achievements is bigger: starting Yahoo or betting early on Jack Ma, chairman and CEO of...
Jan 15, 2021 · Jerry Yang, a Stanford graduate who co-founded the search engine and web services provider Yahoo! and is currently the founding partner of the venture fund AME Cloud Ventures, has been elected ...
Aug 30, 2023 · Jerry Yang, chair of the Board of Trustees, shares his thoughts on Stanford’s upcoming leadership transition and reflects on the university’s recent accomplishments.
Entrepreneur Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in 1995 and served on the Board of Directors until January 2012. Yang also served as a member of the executive management team. While at Yahoo he led a number of initiatives, including two of the biggest investments in the internet: Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group.
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.
Thanks to Jerry Yang’s irreverent tone, and to top-notch programming by a fellow Stanford grad student, David Filo, Yahoo! had a huge part in making the Web accessible to people who didn’t ...
News about Jerry Yang, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Feb 18, 2009 · By Jeremy Pearce. Feb. 17, 2009. Xiangzhong Yang, a reproductive biologist who did early work on the cloning of farm animals and helped establish the safety of meat and milk produced by cloned ...
