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Jerry Yang is an American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He co-created Yahoo! in 1994 and led it as CEO from 2007 to 2009, and also invested in Alibaba in 2005, which became one of the most profitable deals in history.
Yahoo is an American web services provider that offers a web portal, search engine, email, news, finance, sports and more. Learn about its founding, expansion, acquisitions, rejections, controversies and current status.
Jerry Yang is an ethnic Hmong American poker player who won the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event. He started playing poker in 2005 and donated 10% of his $8.25 million prize to charity and his alma mater.
Where have you gone, Jerry Yang? Yahoo!'s (NAS: YHOO) co-founder, onetime CEO, and public face has announced his resignation. "The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo!,"
When Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed to Yahoo! in 1994, Yang and Filo said that "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" was a suitable backronym for this name, but they insisted they had selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."
From January 2008 to November 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Jerry Yang joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -33.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -7.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
Yahoo was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. [4] [5] Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early internet era in the 1990s. [6] Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and President of Yahoo from 2012 until June 2017. [7] It was globally known for its Web portal, search ...
Jerry Yang after winning the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event. The 2007 World Series of Poker was the 38th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). Held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, the series featured 55 poker championships in several variants.