Excuse me, where is Jerry Yang, the founder of Yahoo?

Birth: 1968 was born in Taibei, China, and his name was Yang Zhiyuan;

Immigration:/kloc-immigrated to the United States with his mother at the age of 0/0, and took the English name Yang Zhiyuan.

Marriage: 1997 married, and his wife Qiu Zi is a Costa Rican woman of Japanese descent.

Brother: Ken; He studied in the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, California. Personal homepage :jerry@akebono.stanford.edu

Favorite sports: sumo wrestling, playing basketball, hiking and cycling.

Couting growth; Hutty and puffer fish

Favorite Vietnamese beef noodles 4 yuan bowl.

Dress: linen shirt; Khaki pants

3. From hobby to wholehearted concentration

1In April, 1994, Yang Zhiyuan and Felo, who were still studying at Stanford University, searched the Internet for information in order to complete their headache papers. In the process, they also collected many websites that they are interested in and bookmarked them for easy search. However, when more and more sites are collected, I also feel that the management is a bit chaotic and it is very troublesome to find. So they sorted out these bookmarks by category, compiled them into software and put them online for other surfers to enjoy. However, it was welcomed and supported by everyone.

At that time, the name of this software was: Jerrys's World Wide Web Guide.

4. The second name of the website

Use "refers to chewing?" Hey, hey, Ⅲ? Snowball? Chasing? Peptone scale fixation 4? ? ぷぷ10727 sauce toad sheen? Niu complained that this invention affected the normal operation of school computers. However, Yang Zhiyuan and Fellow still made active efforts to this end, and launched special columns such as "Cool Links" and "Unbelievable", and renamed the website "Jerry and Davis World Wide Web Guide".

Due to limited conditions, the data of the website are stored in Yang Zhiyuan's student computer, nicknamed "Akbono"; The search engine is stored in Felo's computer and nicknamed "Little Ximu", which is the name of their two favorite wrestlers.

5.yahoo! The birth of

1one night in the summer of 994, in the messy studio, Yang Zhiyuan and Fellow gave their website a very special name: Yahoo! They used the word "another compiler" in the Unix program YACC and looked for the right name in the dictionary. Finally, they think that Yahoo (the abbreviation of another hierarchical official Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the word Yahoo also means "monster") is more appropriate, and this self-abased style is in line with the original intention of equality on the Internet. So the magical Yahoo website was born. It was 2 o'clock in the morning.

6. Set up Yahoo! company

While carefully building the website, Yang Zhiyuan and Ferro are actively looking for potential investors. The first person they found was michael moritz from Sequoia Capital. Sequoia is in Yahoo! Invest $654.38 million to build Yahoo! Company and Yahoo brand; At that time, the title printed on Jerry Yang's business card was CEO of Yahoo! (Chief Yahoo)

7. prosperous

Yahoo! The establishment of the company has undoubtedly injected more passion and encouragement into the two young people. During the initial period of the company, Yang Zhiyuan rented relevant equipment from mark anderson Netscape Company, including telephone lines, four silicon graphics workstations, four Pentium computers and a T3 special line. Zhiyuan's Yahoo! Index software is provided to users free of charge, and the company's profit mainly depends on advertising revenue. Daily "Yahoo!" Add more than 200 new directories to the software. Because "Yahoo!" The retrieval system is really convenient, the prospects are generally good, and the advertising revenue is also quite optimistic. As a result, Yahoo! As soon as it went public, it was a blockbuster and a sensation.

1April 996 12, Yahoo's stock went public for the first time, with a share price of 13 USD. It reached $24.50 at the opening, soared to $43 and finally closed at $33, bringing Yahoo a market value of nearly $848 million. Created a record of "the second largest first-day increase in nasdaqs history".

1997 Yahoo earned $67 million.

1998 In the first half of the year, at least 30 million users visited Yahoo every month! , the daily browsing and downloading volume reaches 1 100 million pages!

1April 1999, the official net income was $2,565,438+million, and the income was $8,665,438+million. The company still maintains strong growth.

Page views increased from 65,438+65,438+67 million in February of 1998 to 235 million, an increase of 4 1%, and registered users increased from 35 million to 47 million. The growth rate of users in February was the best among the top ten websites, which was twice the average growth rate of the whole network.

8. The first person in Century Network

Yahoo! This success is inseparable from Yang Zhiyuan's hard work. Clear and agile thinking and unremitting efforts to the cause make him stand out in the IT industry with fierce competition and numerous giants! The approachable style and modest and prudent life have also left a deep impression on the public. Yang Zhiyuan actively participated in various social charity and social activities, delivered speeches at famous universities around the world, told young friends about his growth and success, and became a new generation of intellectual idols. I remember he once said in an interview with CCTV: "I am not afraid of losing. Even if I fail, I have the courage to start again. " The young man's spirit of not being afraid of losing also brought out the essence of this legendary figure.