Yahoo! Home page Type of business Subsidiary Type of site Web portal Founded January 1994 ; 27 years ago (1994-01) Headquarters Sunnyvale, California, U.S. Area served Worldwide Founder(s) Jerry Yang David Filo Products List of products Revenue $5.17 billion Employees 8,600 (2017) Parent Oath (2017–2019) Verizon Media (2019–2021) Yahoo, Inc. (1995–2017; 2021–present) [6] URL www.yahoo ...

Jerry Yang, one of the founders of Yahoo! (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Somewhere out there, Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang must be shouting his company's name for the first time in years.

Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yahoo provides internet services around the world, including search engine, web portal, Yahoo mail, directory services and more. The company was incorporated in 1995 and went public in April 1996 (YHOO on the NASDAQ). Yahoo is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Yahoo! co-founders Jerry Yang (C) and David Filo (R) pose with chief executive Terry Semel.

The email came from Chairman Roy Bostock and Yahoo co-founders David Filo and Jerry Yang. The three said [...]

Yahoo! was founded in the year 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo. An electrical engineer by profession, Filo co-founded Yahoo! at Stanford University. Initially, the duo called their venture, “Jerry and David’s guide to the World Wide Web”.

Yahoo!, in full Yahoo! Inc., global Internet services provider based in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Communications since 2017. It was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, graduate students at Stanford University in California. Yahoo! provides users with online utilities, information, and access to other Web sites.

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 ...

Founded Date Jan 1994; Founders David Filo, Jerry Yang, Roland Schemers; Operating Status Active; Last Funding Type Series B; Also Known As Yahoo! Legal Name Yahoo! Inc. Related Hubs Yahoo Alumni Founded Companies; Hub Tags Pledge 1% Stock Symbol NASDAQ:YHOO ; Company Type For Profit; Number of Exits 14; Phone Number (408) 349-3300