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
believe best
I believe Yahoo!'s best years are still ahead of it.
allow certainly environment sort stanford
Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.
broadband companies future
Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.
companies
Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.
enterprise power serious
Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.
I haven't gotten any calls to run GM.
people
Internally we say to people (employees of Yahoo!), 'you always have other options,'
I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.
technology
Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.
advertising last local spent
The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.
amendment hinges means
The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
business good money sure using
I'm not sure at all that I'm any good at this mentoring/investing business - that's why I'm using my own money, and that's why it's not a career.
If you're not in the game to win, you shouldn't be in the game.
asset built great
If you look at what we've done in Japan..., we've built a great asset there.