Jerry Yang: Co-founder of Yahoo! Inc

Co-founder Chief Yahoo and Director Jerry Yang, a Taiwanese native raised in San Jose, California-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in. April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. Yang, a leading force in the media industry, has been instrumental in building Yahoo! into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the Internet's most recognized brands.

Yang was born on 6th November 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan. He moved to the U.S with his family at the age of 10. Jerry Yang completed his graduation as well as post-graduation in electrical engineering and applied for his doctoral degree. While studying for his PhD, he met David Filo, his office partner, and soon they both became hooked to the Internet which was newly introduced at the time.

As graduate students at Stanford University in 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo should have been working toward finishing their doctoral degrees in electrical engineering. Their studies focused on computer-aided design and how it could be used to improve and automate the production of computer chips.

While surfing, they identified the complexity in locating the required websites over the internet and developed software to overcome this problem. Originally they created a website to provide for a way to organize the maze of internet addresses on the World Wide Web, which later transformed into a multi-billion corporation.
Jerry Yang: Co-founder of Yahoo! Inc