Jerry Yang
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang is a Taiwanese-American computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.
- 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.
