Jerry Yang
Jerry Yang
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yangis a Taiwanese American Internet entrepreneur and programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth6 November 1968
CityTaipei, Taiwan
CountryUnited States of America
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The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.
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I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.
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The challenge for us is to build partnerships over time that will realize the benefits others are gaining through mergers and acquisitions.
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Now we're seeing services and applications. This has been one of the promises the Internet has offered for a long time -- the consumer can really be the programmer.
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My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.
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Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.
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The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.
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There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.
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one of the better products we've launched in a long time.
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In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.
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Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.
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The 'Field of Dreams' Internet--where the assumption was 'If you build it, they will come'--is no longer a reality. Content sites can no longer grow organically, and I give only six more months for most new electronic commerce sites.
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Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors, cloud and big data. I am bullish on Scanadu and its potential to revolutionize the way we think about our health.
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People regard Yahoo as a platform for essential services, and it's had a profound impact on the way people obtain information, communicate, and their entertainment.