Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang:
born November 6,
1968 in Taipei ) is a Taiwanese American
Internet entrepreneur and programmer . He
is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo!
Inc .
Early life
Jerry Yang's signature
Yang was born in Taipei , Taiwan , on
November 6, 1968, and moved to San Jose,
California, at the age of ten with his mother
and younger brother. He claimed that,
despite his mother being an English teacher,
he only knew one English word (shoe) on his
arrival. Becoming fluent in the language in
three years, he was then placed into an
Advanced Placement English class.
Yang graduated from Sierramont Middle
School and Piedmont Hills High School in
San Jose and went on to earn a Bachelor of
Science and a Master of Science in electrical
engineering from Stanford University , where
he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity.
born November 6,
1968 in Taipei ) is a Taiwanese American
Internet entrepreneur and programmer . He
is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo!
Inc .
Early life
Jerry Yang's signature
Yang was born in Taipei , Taiwan , on
November 6, 1968, and moved to San Jose,
California, at the age of ten with his mother
and younger brother. He claimed that,
despite his mother being an English teacher,
he only knew one English word (shoe) on his
arrival. Becoming fluent in the language in
three years, he was then placed into an
Advanced Placement English class.
Yang graduated from Sierramont Middle
School and Piedmont Hills High School in
San Jose and went on to earn a Bachelor of
Science and a Master of Science in electrical
engineering from Stanford University , where
he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi
fraternity.
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