Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)

Jerry ChihYuan Yang is a Taiwanese American Internet entrepreneur and programmer. He is the cofounder and former CEO of Yahoo Inc.

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 on his arrival. Becoming fluent in the language in three years, he was then placed into an Advanced Placement English class.

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