The founder of Yahoo

Yahoo has two founders, one is David Ferrer and the other is Jerry Yang. Yang Zhiyuan was born in 1968 and spent his childhood in Taiwan Province. His mother is a professor of English and drama. After Yang Zhiyuan's father died when he was two years old, his mother has been raising and educating him and his younger brother. Yang Zhiyuan has an aunt who lives in America. /kloc-At the age of 0/0, Yang Zhiyuan immigrated to California with his family. He insisted that he was a lazy boy and couldn't concentrate.

Maybe that's true, but he did well in his studies. The starting point of Yang Zhiyuan's study is really low. On the first day of school, he only knew one English word-shoe, but after finishing middle school, he successfully entered the Department of Electronic Engineering of Stanford University with 1990. Yang Zhiyuan completed his undergraduate and master's degrees in the Department of Electronic Engineering in four years. Near graduation, he found that the knowledge he had learned was far from enough, and he found that he was not fully prepared for the society. So he began to study for a doctorate in order to get a higher starting point. Maybe it's God's plan. Just then, David happened to have a research project that needed help, so they came together and started their doctoral studies, which also opened a key step for their later entrepreneurship.

At first, Yang Zhiyuan and David thought that there were many entrepreneurial opportunities for automatic control software, so they chose this research direction as an entrepreneurial experimental field, but they soon found that entrepreneurial opportunities in this direction had been monopolized by several companies, leaving them few opportunities. Just when they were extremely depressed and bored, a turning point appeared. There are two other factors that stimulated them to decide to run the search engine business. One thing, one person, to be exact.

One day, they accidentally logged into a search website called "Mel Ross". Although the content of the website is empty and lacks originality, the classified catalogue adopted by the whole website attracts them. Why not organize a website like this, so that loggers can query the content according to their own needs? This innovative idea led to the birth of Yahoo and became the technical direction of Yahoo's website later. At the same time, due to the use of keyword technology, the query speed is faster, far from those search engines that were only used by Internet users before. In the words of Yang Zhiyuan, "Yahoo is a late bloomer."

If "Mel Ross" is Yahoo's positive motivation and blueprint, then the awesome teacher Di melcher is an inspiring whip full of nails. These two high flyers, who are well-known in the computer department of Stanford University, also had a routine for Ivy League students to get rich at first: reading good books and taking a series of "A's" to report for work in big companies. However, this wonderful dream was destroyed in time by their doctoral tutor Di melcher, who was later called "the savior".

When these two good students started their great ambitions in a rented attic, the school's computer network was flooded with tens of thousands of logins to their precious servers every day. After repeated persuasion, Dumer Che finally lost his temper and gave an ultimatum: either give up work or pack up and leave. The two men took a compromise road and moved the laboratory out of the campus.

"In the beginning, everything was like a nightmare. We don't have a computer or a server. Yang Zhiyuan spent all his savings on several computers. As for the server, he rented it by making pop-up (pop-up) for big companies like AOL and Netscape for free. What's more, when we were in the most difficult time, both of the above two big companies gave us a helping hand and wanted to hire us at a high salary. We managed to survive. " David Ferrer looked helpless when he recalled this past.

1April, 1994, the mosaic of Internet browsers that just appeared at that time quickly fascinated them. So, they made their own homepage, collected their favorite beautiful websites and linked them to their homepage. They spent all night on the internet, and the research work of the doctor was naturally put aside. Like many surfers, Yang Zhiyuan and David collect their favorite websites and exchange them with each other, first every day, then every few hours, and then at any time. With more and more website information collected, they developed a database system to manage this information and put it into a convenient table named "Yang Zhiyuan and David's www Website". The list of websites is getting longer and longer, so they divide the websites into different categories. Soon there are too many websites in each category, and they divide each category into subcategories. The prototype of Yahoo was born. The core is to classify websites by grades, which is very similar to the book classification in China. In China's book classification, books are classified according to their contents, and the classification is further divided into subcategories and subcategories until the titles are listed.

At first, Yang Zhiyuan and David just gave the address of the tour guide to a few friends, but it didn't take long for hundreds of people to visit their tour guide. When they designed the guide, they didn't think of giving it to people outside the university. This is pure entertainment. But Yang Zhiyuan's computer belongs to the public part of Stanford University's network, so as long as he knows the address, he can access it at any time. After the software designed by Yang Zhiyuan and David was put into the network, it was very popular, and countless people came to their address in Stanford University to inquire, so that the network of Stanford University was very crowded and the school complained bitterly. With more and more visitors to the website, they are more and more proud and more attentive, constantly expanding the functions of the wizard, improving the search efficiency, and adding the latest site, the coolest site and other functions. Every time they make progress, they will receive many encouraging emails, and some also put forward suggestions for improvement. All this is done without any commercial interests, but it is always good to attract people's attention. They are constantly adding more and better services to attract more visitors, and the name of the website has been changed to Yahoo.

In the winter of 1994, their traffic increased greatly, and the whole Web network entered a period of rapid development. Netscape was formally established. With the increasing traffic of Yahoo, two inexperienced boys are embarrassed, but in any case, the value of Yahoo cannot be ignored. Yahoo receives thousands of visitors every day, and anything with a large number of loyal followers is always valuable. Yang Zhiyuan firmly believes this. In this case, some people may say that Yang Zhiyuan might as well leave school and set up a company himself, which may make a fortune. This is exactly what Yang Zhiyuan did. Therefore, Yang Zhiyuan interrupted his studies and founded Yahoo! After the company's stock was listed on Wall Street, Yang Zhiyuan's personal assets soared to $6543.8+$700 million. Yang Zhiyuan is a billionaire from the Internet. The Internet is full of opportunities, and Yang Zhiyuan seized the opportunity. It is this young man from China, Taiwan Province Province who developed Yahoo! Yahoo made Jerry Yang a billionaire overnight, which is really a drop in the bucket. This may make people feel that his experience is like that of another computer-related guy? Yes, some people call Yang Zhiyuan "the second Bill Gates". However, Yang Zhiyuan himself does not want to compare him with the young rich man who interrupted his studies at Harvard University and founded Microsoft. He said he was "Yang Zhiyuan first"

Yang Zhiyuan, who calls himself "the chief fool", is solving the problem of how to develop next after catching the wealth falling from the sky. Anyone who doesn't know the history of computer development will know that computers are definitely not what they are today from the beginning, or that there is no computer at all in this world, and people created computers. Therefore, the birth and development of computers is the result of human beings constantly challenging their own abilities. After careful reflection, a history of computer development is a history of quiz. Computers are the arena of intelligence!