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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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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We think small business in the US and other markets are very fragmented and a tremendous opportunity for a quasi-automated business model like we have to take advantage of.
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one of the better products we've launched in a long time.
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China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.
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China is a key market for any Internet company. We think (the deal) will allow us to grow from a strong position to a dominant one.
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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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Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.
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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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We did not know what they wanted information for, we are not told what they look for, if they give us the proper documentation in a court order we give them things that satisfy local laws,
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We did not know what they wanted information for,
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The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.
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Yahoo is a consumer brand. It is a consumer brand that allows people to get what they want from the Internet in a way that only Yahoo can deliver it.
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We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.
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I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?