Rank #1376
Jerry Yang
Net worth $3.1B
Yahoo · United States
- Born
- Nov 06, 1968
- Age
- 57
- Source
- Yahoo
- Residence
- Los Altos Hills, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University; Master of Science, Stanford University
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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.
- Yang was born in Taiwan; his father died when he was two. He immigrated to the U.S. at age 10 with his mother and brother.
- 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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