Yang Zhiyuan (English name: Jerry Yang)/kloc-0 was born in Taiwan Province Province on October 8th, 1968, 165438. He is the world-famous Internet company Yahoo! ) founder and former CEO. 1994, together with david filo, he founded Yahoo, the world's first portal. On 20 12, 18, 10, Yang Zhiyuan resigned as a director of Yahoo and all other positions.

In the United States, "committee of 100" is composed of more than 65,438+000 outstanding Chinese Americans, among whom Yang Zhiyuan, the founder of Yahoo whose ancestral home is Hubei, is known as "the first person in the century network" and is a representative of entrepreneurs. China's strong complex has inspired generations of Internet successors in China.

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1997 When Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, came to China for the first time, Jerry Yang met him, which was an accidental meeting for Yahoo. Yang Zhiyuan later exchanged 10 billion dollars and some Asian assets for a 40% stake in Alibaba. In the next decade, Yahoo made billions of dollars from its initial investment.

"In retrospect, Ma Yun will be my guide. What a low probability this is. " Yang Zhiyuan said, "In view of the timing of my investment in Alibaba, I have always felt that I am the luckiest person in the world."

Yang Zhiyuan and david filo met at Stanford University in 1980s, and they created the first online content directory at 1994. Yahoo's original name is "Jerry and David's World Wide Web Guide". He finally left the company on 20 12 (after which Yahoo was acquired by Verizon) and then set up his own investment company, AME Cloud Venture Capital.

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