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Hokkien POJ. iông tì oán. Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang ( Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is an American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures.
Early history (1994–1996) 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."
Paul Milgrom (BA 1970), co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. Marshall Nirenberg (Ph.D. 1957), co-winner of 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for interpreting the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. H. David Politzer (BS ...
The long, drawn-out, oftentimes melodramatic saga revolving around Yahoo itself and co-founder Jerry Yang is well-documented. Perhaps too well. Thankfully for us all, that ends today. As of ...
Yahoo founder Jerry Yang may have dodged a bullet by settling with angry investor Carl Icahn, giving him aboard seat and agreeing to open up two more. That victory was secured in part by talking ...
The Stanford Cardinal men's basketball team represents Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States. The school's team currently competes in the Pac-12 Conference . They play their home games at Maples Pavilion .
Jerry Yang just put up a blog post on his reasons for stepping down as CEO of Yahoo. In it, he highlights the successes of the past 18 months. Yahoo is now "rewired," the new ad platform has been ...
With Vanderbilt basketball moving on from coach Jerry Stackhouse, the transfer portal is now open for business for the Commodores' players.. Although the portal doesn't open until after Selection ...