Jerry Yang
Co-Founder and CEO, Yahoo
Jerry Yang is one of the best-known of the Web’s early Internet entrepreneurs. A Taiwan native, Mr. Yang was raised in the Silicon Valley area. He created Yahoo with David Filo in 1994 as a graduate student at Stanford University. Since then, it has become one of the most important brands on the Internet and one of the most highly trafficked sites on the Web. But the company has also fallen on tougher times of late, with challenges from more powerful companies like Google and a spate of Web 2.0 innovations. After former CEO Terry Semel stepped down, Mr. Yang was appointed CEO in mid-2007. While he has struggled to make changes at Yahoo quickly, his tenure was threatened in February with an unsolicited takeover bid by Microsoft.
