Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)
| Jerry Yang | |
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Jerry Yang in 2007
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| Native name | |
| Born |
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang November 6, 1968 Taipei, Taiwan |
| Residence |
Los Altos Hills, California, United States |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Occupation | Founding Partner, AME Cloud Ventures. |
| Net worth |
 US$1.8 billion (September 2015) |
| Spouse(s) | Akiko Yamazaki |
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (traditional Chinese: 楊致遠; simplified Chinese: 杨致远; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iông tì oán); born November 6, 1968 in Taipei) is a Taiwanese American Internet entrepreneur and programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.
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 and by then 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 coming 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.
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 the woman who would become his wife, who was there as part of the exchange program.
Yang founded Yahoo! in 1994, served as CEO from 2007 to 2009. He left Yahoo! in 2012. He founded a venture capital firm called AME Cloud Ventures and, as of 2015, serves on several corporate boards. According to Rob Solomon, a venture capitalist at Accel Partners, Yang was "a great founder, evangelist, strategist and mentor", having "created the blueprint for what is possible on the Internet".
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