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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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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It's a huge opportunity for Yahoo to be closer to our user base without them having to fire up a browser.
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There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.
almost biggest five giving six struggle
The biggest struggle was probably giving up something that we'd been doing for five or six years, doing our Ph.D.s and almost being there.
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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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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.
I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.
people seen
I have never seen so many people with cameras. It is kind of scary.
I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.
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.
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Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop - by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants - by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.
pursue time
The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.
collecting purchase
I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.