Jerry Yang — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in 1994, initially as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"
Served as CEO of Yahoo! Inc. from 2007 to 2009
Founding Partner of AME Cloud Ventures, a venture capital firm
Holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in electrical engineering from Stanford University
Named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 in 1999 as one of the top 100 innovators under 35
Serves on several corporate boards

Biography

Jerry Yang, a Taiwanese-born American computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist, is widely recognized as the co-founder of Yahoo! Inc. In 1994, while studying at Stanford University, he and David Filo co-created an internet website initially named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.

" This directory of websites quickly gained popularity and was renamed Yahoo! Inc., going public in April 1996.

Yang served as CEO of Yahoo! from 2007 to 2009.