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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.
Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder, and the former CEO of ‘Yahoo! Inc.’. Born in Taiwan, his family moved to United States when he was ten and he learned to speak the English language in the following years.
Oct 22, 2024 · 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 board in 2012.
- Cofounder
Mar 4, 2024 · Not only is it led by a chef who is not Japanese, but its creation is linked to what owner Jerry Yang says is his knack for being able to read the behavior of people. Yang was born in Northeast Laos in the late 1960s when war was disrupting life and displacing families.
Yang was born on 6th November 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan. He moved to the U.S with his family at the age of 10. Yang did not know how to speak the English language however he became fluent in just three years. He attended the Sierramont Middle School and Piedmont Hills High School.
The co-founder of Yahoo!, this Taiwanese technologist successfully created one of the world’s top online properties. Born in Taiwan in November 1968, Jerry Yang’s early years were spent in the small, developing nation in East Asia. His mother, an English teacher, moved to the United States in 1978, bringing Jerry and his younger brother with her.
In 2007, he and his wife pledged $75 million to Stanford University to build the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building, affectionately known on campus as Y2E2, and he currently serves as vice-chair of its board of trustees.
