Jerry Yang
About Jerry Yang
Yang cofounded web portal Yahoo in 1995 after dropping out of a Ph.D. program in electrical engineering at Stanford.
Yang served as Yahoo's CEO from 2007 to 2009; he left Yahoo's board in 2012.
In 2017, he and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, pledged $25 million to San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, the largest gift in the museum's history.
In 2016, Yahoo completed the sale of its core operating business to Verizon for $5 billion in cash.
Yang founded AME Cloud Ventures, which bets on data-driven startups. Through his fund and personally, Yang has made several impact-minded investments.
Yang began a two-year term as chair of the board of trustees at Stanford, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees, in July 2021.
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11/06/68 (age 56)Number of children
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Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University; Master of Science, Stanford UniversitySelf-made
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A former Chinese calligraphy student, Yang has a collection of about 250 works of ancient Chinese calligraphy from the Ming and Qing eras.
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