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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. [1] [2]
6 days ago · 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...
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.
Oct 18, 2023 · Jerry Yang's connection with Alibaba is a notable chapter in his post-Yahoo career. In 2005, Yahoo made a strategic investment in Alibaba, a Chinese E-commerce and technology giant founded by Jack Ma.
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...
In this interview, we talk to Yang about the early days of Yahoo!, how to win in China, what he’s doing now and got the low-down on how he met Jack Ma and pulled off one of the best investments in tech history.
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.
What started in 1993 on a Stanford grad student’s home page as “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”–a categorized list of sites, managed by a search engine–became “Yet Another ...
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 ...
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.
