“After meeting with the families, it was clear to me what we had to do to make this right for them, for Yahoo, and for the future.”
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Jerry Yang
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang is a Taiwanese-born 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. As of May 2025, Yang has a net worth of $3.1 billion.
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business · American programmer and entrepreneur (born 1968) · entrepreneur · computer scientist · businessperson · art collector · engineer · also Jerry Yang, Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang, Yang
Born 6 November 1968 · Q215284
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Was among the co-founders of The Asian American Foundation, a $250 million initiative to address racism against Asian Americans and provide services to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
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2020· 3 entries
A lawsuit was filed on behalf of Chinese activist Ning Xianhua against past Yahoo
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Published “A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 22,158 times.
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Published “A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin” in Nature — cited 17,378 times.
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2015· 2 entries
Reported net worth: $1.8B (as of 2015).
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “A Survey on Transfer Learning” in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering — cited 19,235 times.
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2008· 2 entries
The Wall Street Journal reported Yang would step down as CEO as soon as the company found a replacement
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The Laogai Museum opened; the museum was run by noted Chinese dissident Harry Wu and showcased China's laogai penal system
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2007).
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2005· 1 entry
Under Yang's direction but before he took over as CEO in 2007, Yahoo
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,636 times.
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1999· 2 entries
Yang was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35
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Published “Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assay” in Free Radical Biology and Medicine — cited 21,416 times.
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1997· 1 entry
During Yang's first trip to China
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1994· 1 entry
Yang and David Filo co-created an Internet website called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," which consisted of a directory of other websites
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1992· 1 entry
During a 6-month Stanford exchange program
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1989· 1 entry
And the two went to Japan in 1992 for a six-month exchange program, where he met his future wife, Akiko Yamazaki, also participating in the exchange program
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1988· 1 entry
Published “Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density” in Physical Review B — cited 95,908 times.
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1978· 1 entry
His mother moved the family to San Jose, California, where his grandmother and extended family took care of the boys while his mother taught English to other immigrants
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1968· 1 entry
Born 1968-11-06.
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