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Jerry Yang is the co-founder of Yahoo!, the Internet indexing and portal company. In one of the most famous Silicon Valley start-up stories, Yang founded Yahoo! with David Filo while a Stanford student in 1994 as “Jerry and Dave’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” and renamed the company as Yahoo! in 1995. Initially built as a web portal indexing a range of online products and services, today the company is one of the most visited Internet brands. Jerry Yang is currently Chief Yahoo, a member of Yahoo!’s Board of Directors, and a prominent philanthropist pursuing a special interest in the environment.
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Berger, R., Grusky, D., Raffel, T., Samuels, G., Wimer, C. (2010). Jerry Yang. In: The Inequality Puzzle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15804-9_14
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