Jerry Yang & David Filo
Jerry Yang & David Filo are Founders of Yahoo! Inc.
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.
In early 1994, they began posting their list online as "David and Jerry's Guide to the Web" so their friends could access the informal guide to "cool" sites.
As the list of sites grew, Filo and Yang began dividing them into categories, then subcategories to provide more structure and easier searching. Later that summer they re-dubbed the system Yahoo!
As Yahoo!'s list of sites expanded, so did its number of users. By November 1994, 170,000 people a day were visiting the site. By 1998, Web surfers were dropping into Yahoo! at the rate of more than a million a day.
David Filo
David Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with 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! web site.
Filo was born in Wisconsin. At age six, he moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a B.S. in computer engineering at Tulane University and an M.S. at Stanford University.
Filo is married to photographer and teacher Angela Buenning.
Filo and his wife launched Yellow Chair Foundation in 2000, helped in the launch of Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship in 2008 and have endowed professorships in engineering and education.
Jerry Yang
Full Name : Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang.
He is at Taiwanese-born American internet entrepreneur, engineer, the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.
Yang was born in Taipei, Taiwan on November 6, 1968, and moved to San Jose, California at the age of ten with his mother and younger brother.
Yang graduated from Sierramont Middle School and Piedmont Hills High School in San Jose and went on to earn a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
Yang founded Yahoo! in 1994, served as CEO from 2007 to 2009, and left Yahoo! in 2012. He founded a venture capital firm called AME Cloud Ventures and as of 2015, serves on several corporate boards.
Yang is married to Akiko Yamazaki, a Japanese woman who was raised in Costa Rica.
Yamazaki graduated from Stanford University with a degree in industrial engineering and is a director with the Wildlife Conservation Network.
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