Jerry Yang

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jerry Yang
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Nov 6, 1968(1968-11-06)
Age	56
Birthplace	Taipei
Country	Taiwan
Horoscope	Scorpio

Jerry Yang Biography

Jerry Yang is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on November 6, 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan. Co-founder and one- time CEO of the Yahoo! search engine. The net worth of his company, at 2012, was well over 1.2 million dollars.

He was against the takeover of his company of the company by Microsoft in addition to He opposed his company’s takeover by Microsoft and Bill Gates, a widely derided decision that led to him resigning as Yahoo’s CEO in 2009., which was widely mocked and caused him to quit as Yahoo’s chief executive in the year 2009.

Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Chinese: 楊致遠 ; born November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese- American computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.

Yang earned both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Stanford University in four years. He met David Filo at Stanford in 1989, and the two of them went to Japan in 1992 for a six-month exchange program, during which he met his future wife, who was there as part of the exchange program.

He got married to with a Japanese lady, Akiko Yamazaki, who was born within Costa Rica.

Jerry Yang Net Worth

Jerry Yang is one of the richest Entrepreneur from Taiwan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jerry Yang 's net worth $2.2 Billion. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student at Stanford University, where he was a student of electrical engineering.

He was in 2008 when he rebuffed jobs as CEO from Microsoft in 2008 as well as Google.

Yang was born with the name Yang Chih-Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan, on November 6, 1968; his mother was a professor of English and drama and his father died when he was two, by which time Yang had a brother. In 1978, his mother moved the family to San Jose, California, where his grandmother and extended family took care of the boys while his mother taught English to other immigrants. After moving to the US Yang took the American name Jerry, his mother Lily, and his brother Ken. He says that he only knew one English word, “shoe”, when he came to America, but became fluent in English in about three years.

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Who is Jerry Yang Dating?

According to our records, Jerry Yang married to Akiko Yamazaki. As of December 1, 2023, Jerry Yang’s is not dating anyone.

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In fall 2005, a month after the Alibaba investment, news broke that Yahoo! had cooperated with Chinese authorities in the arrest of Chinese journalist Shi Tao in November 2004. Shi had used a Yahoo email address to anonymously notify a pro-democracy website in the US that the Chinese government had ordered the Chinese media not to cover the fifteenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 on June 4. Yahoo! provided the Chinese security agencies with the IP addresses of the senders, the recipients and the time of the message. Shi was subsequently convicted for “divulging state secrets abroad.”

Facts & Trivia

Jerry Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Taiwan. Jerry Yang celebrates birthday on November 6 of every year.

In February 2007, Yang and his wife gave $75 million to Stanford University, their alma mater, $50 million of which went to building the “Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building”, a multi-disciplinary research, teaching and lab building designed with sustainable architecture principles.

How did Jerry Yang changed the world?

While studying at Stanford in 1994, Yang and David Filo co-created an Internet website called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” which consisted of a directory of other websites. As it grew in popularity they renamed it “Yahoo! Inc.” Yahoo! received around 100,000 unique visitors by the fall of 1994.

What is Jerry Yang doing?

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 chair of the Stanford University Board of Trustees. His two-year term begins July 1, 2021.

What did Jerry Yang and David Filo develop?

Yang and Filo created a directory of websites organized in a hierarchy rather than a searchable list. At first called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” they gave it the acronym Yahoo! for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”

What is David Filo net worth?

3.2 billion USD (2022)

Why did Yahoo failed?

Just how Orkut’s slow speed had made it cumbersome for its users and made it lose its audience to Facebook, Yahoo!’s heavy advertising reduced its quality of user experience and made it lose its audience to Google. Users started switching to other alternatives, and its market value started to depreciate over the years.