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David Filo

United States 60 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth: Yahoo
Industry: Technology
Residence: Palo Alto, California
Organization: Chief Yahoo at Yahoo!
Education: Stanford University (Master of Science)
Tulane University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
Marital Status: Married
Children: 1

Assets

Altaba

31,510,000 shares @ -

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LBTA-US

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.

About

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."