Jerry Yang

Jerry Yang (born November 6, 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan) is an Internet Entrepreneur and the co-founder, former CEO, and “Chief Yahoo” of Yahoo! Inc.

The Chief Yahoo shares his story, from Stanford’s electrical engineering classroom to creation of “a little thing called Yahoo.”

While Yang studied in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, he co-created in April 1994 with David Filo an Internet website called “Jerry and Dave’s Guide to the World Wide Web” consisting of a directory of other websites. It was renamed “Yahoo!” (an exclamation). Yahoo! became very popular, and Yang and Filo realized the business potential and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995.  They took leaves of absence and postponed their doctoral programs indefinitely.

Yahoo! started off as a web portal with a web directory providing an extensive range of products and services for online activities. It is now one of the leading internet brands and, due to partnerships with telecommunications firms, has the most trafficked network on the internet.  In 1999, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35