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David Filo. Co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc. David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server ...
Inc. [3] was an American multinational technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. 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 ...
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."
Joining Filo in the ranks of the nominated are Charles Schwab, chairman of eponymous financial firm Charles Schwab, and H. Lee Scott, Jr., who was once the CEO of Walmart. An interesting crew.
Yahoo has just announced that it's finally shutting down the service on December 31st, 2014, 20 years after company founders Jerry Yang and David Filo first put it together.
It’s just two weeks until TechCrunch40 kicks off on September 17 in San Francisco. Last week we announced that we’ve doubled the number of presenting companies from 20 to 40. And today we’ve ...
Founding Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo The Yahoo home page in 1994, when it was a directory, a search engine was added in 1995. In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were electrical engineering graduate students at Stanford University, when they created a website named "Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web".
David Filo was a co-founder of Yahoo, the first great internet company of our age. Chad Hurley is CEO and Co-founder of YouTube…and that story doesn’t need repeating. Chad Hurley is first.