Jerry Yang was born on November 5, 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan. He is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Yahoo Inc.His father died when he was only two years. Yang moved to San Jose at the age of ten years with his mother and brother. He said that even if his mother was an English teacher, he knew only one word was shoe on his arrival in the United States. Yang is graduated from the Sierramont Middle School, and Piedmont Hills School and he received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering at Stanford University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. In 1994, Jerry Yang founded Yahoo! with David Filo. Their aim was building the first directory of websites on Internet. Initially, this directory of websites called “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wilde Web”.
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AOL then offer to purchase Yahoo!, But both refused to say that Yahoo was founded by them to have fun and enjoyment rather than for money. Then, the two decided to make a profit from their inventions. They found an investor a Mike Moritz. With a $ 1 million menginfestasikan by Moritz, Yang and Filo to find some colleagues and established entrepreneurs to start their own businesses. Only one year after its founding, Yahoo! become one of the most successful online companies. Jerry Yang played a major role in running the company, he runs the company with Philo's wheels. As CEO, he played a major role in the development and implementation of corporate business strategy, vision, and international efforts. On January 13, 2009, he was replaced by Carol Bartz as the new CEO. Although no longer CEO, Yang was still a member of the board of directors. Who as CEO dikeritik by various employers for failing to raise the stock price of Yahoo! He was also criticized by the other shareholders for its refusal to accept a deal with Microsoft.In spite of all the issues that follow Jerry Yang's career as an entrepreneur, his contributions to the Internet media industry to prove that he is truly a brilliant businessman. At present, Yang is part of the Board of Directors of Alibaba, Cisco, Asia Pacific Fund, and Yahoo!.
He was sure that he is gonna be an electrical engineer. But his life turned to business. Nowadays he is one of the most successful businessman and entrepreneur in the world. H proved that to be a successful businessman you should be experienced and have a specific goals. But not every time happens what we want.