Yang cofounded web portal Yahoo in 1995 after dropping out of a Ph.D. program in electrical engineering at Stanford. Yang served as Yahoo's CEO from 2007 to 2009; he left Yahoo's board in 2012.

Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder, and the former CEO of ‘Yahoo! Inc.’ Born in Taiwan, his family moved to United States when he was ten and he learned to speak the English language in the following years.

Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang has resigned from the Sunnyvale Internet company's board of directors, Yahoo announced Jan. 17. Yang founded Yahoo in 1995 with David Filo, and the ...

Yang and David Filo, who met at Stanford University in the 1980s, founded Yahoo as one of the first directories of web content in 1994, though originally with the name “Jerry and David’s Guide ...

Yahoo! Inc. (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News) announced the resignation of its co-founder Jerry Yang from its board of directors as well as other positions within the company.Yang will no longer be on the boards of Yahoo Japanor Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The 43 year old Jerry Yang, who served the company for more than 17 years, resigned at a time when the company is struggling to compete with Google Inc ...

Yahoo Inc.’s Jerry Yang, the company’s co-founder and former chief executive officer, has resigned from its board of directors. Yang stepped down as a member of the boards of Yahoo Japan and ...

Jerry Yang, Founder of Yahoo. By Real Leaders | Oct 11, 2016. Yang was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1968, and his father died two years later. He moved with the rest of his family to San Jose, California when he was eight years old. Upon arriving in America, Yang knew just one word of English: “shoe.”. But in spite of these massive ...

Jerry Yang's house (Google Maps). The co-founder of and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. lives here.

In 2005, Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang pulled off what would be one of the greatest strategic investments in tech history: he arranged for Yahoo to spend $1 billion for a 40% stake in fledgling ...