Jerry Yang
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Yahoo
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Los Altos Hills, California
- Organization
- Cofounder at Yahoo!
- Education
- Stanford University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)Stanford University (Master of Science)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
Assets
- Alibaba Group (ADR)56,634 shares @ --BABA-US
- Altaba12,766,000 shares @ --LBTA-US
- Cisco Systems Inc.0 shares @ --CSCO-US
- Workday, Inc.94,000 shares @ --WDAY-US
- Zoom Video Communications2,186,647 shares @ --ZM-US
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.
About
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.