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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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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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.
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The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
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I have never seen so many people with cameras. It is kind of scary.
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If you look at what we've done in Japan..., we've built a great asset there.
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Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.
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I can't clearly comment on that ..., ... I Êwould say that we are talking to a lot of people and we are talking to all the major companies around the world.
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I can't clearly comment on that ..., ... I Â would say that we are talking to a lot of people and we are talking to all the major companies around the world.
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I don't like the outcome of what happened with this thing, we get a lot of these orders, but we have to comply with the law and that's what we need to do.
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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.
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Internally we say to people (employees of Yahoo!), 'you always have other options,'
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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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The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.
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The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.