Jerry Yang
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Image:Jerry Yang.jpg Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Template:Zh-tp; born November 61968) is the Taiwanese American co-founder of Yahoo! Inc. He is a current board director and a former executive of the company. His net worth in 2005 was US$2.6 billion.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Yang moved to San Jose, California when aged ten, with his single mother (Lily) and younger brother (Ken). His father had died when Yang was two. He claimed that despite his mother being an English teacher, he only knew one English word (Shoe) on his arrival. Mastering the English language in only three years, he was soon placed into an AP English class.
Yang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Yang was recently named to the Stanford Board of Trustees. He co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. Yang married Akiko Yamazaki, a Japanese American raised in Costa Rica. She is an anthropologist.
In 2005, Yahoo was criticized for identifying Chinese dissident journalist Shi Tao to Chinese authorities, resulting in his receiving a ten year jail sentence. Yang commented that "To be doing business in China, or anywhere else in the world, we have to comply with local law." Whether Yahoo was legally obliged to reveal the information is a matter of dispute.
External links
- Jerry Yang's political donations
- Yang and Yamazaki: one photo
- 1999 "Time Digital 50" snippet on Yang
- Stanford Jerry Yang and David Filo Bio
- Mark & Marc Interview
- MetroActive: A Couple of Yahoos
- IT Conversations audio interview from the Web 2.0 conference - 7 October 2004
- Jerry Yang, Yahoo and the Shi Tao case
- Yang's comment on the case
- Forbes - World's Richest Peoplede:Jerry Yang