Rank #934
David Filo
Net worth $4.6B
Yahoo · United States
- Born
- Apr 15, 1966
- Age
- 60
- Source
- Yahoo
- Residence
- Palo Alto, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 1
- Education
- Master of Science, Stanford University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Tulane University
Net worth over time
Biography
- David Filo cofounded Yahoo, which sold its core business to Verizon for $5 billion in cash in 2016.
- The most valuable part of Yahoo - its stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan - morphed into a company called Altaba. Altaba voted to liquidate in 2019.
- Filo and his wife Angela established the Yellow Chair Foundation in 2000; it supports education, civil liberties, gender equality and the environment.
- In 2004, Filo donated $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University, for engineering and computer science scholarships.
- Filo's wife Angela, a photographer and educator, sits on Stanford's Board of Trustees. David got a master's degree from Stanford in 1990.
- Originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," Yahoo was named after a word from Gulliver's Travels that meant "rude, unsophisticated."
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