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David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.
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- David Robert Filo, April 20, 1966 (age 57), Wisconsin, U.S.
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He met David Filo at Stanford in 1989, and the two went to Japan in 1992 for a six-month exchange program, where he met his future wife, Akiko Yamazaki, also participating in the exchange program. Career. Yang founded Yahoo! in 1994 and was CEO from 2007 to 2009. He left Yahoo! in 2012.
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- Akiko Yamazaki
It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
Jan 15, 2021 · Yang co-founded Yahoo! in 1995 with fellow Stanford graduate student David Filo and served on its board and as a member of its executive team until 2012, including as CEO from 2007 to 2009.
Mar 1, 2015 · In early 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were PhD students in electrical engineering at Stanford. Yang was the outgoing, gregarious one of the two. Born in Taiwan, Yang moved with his family to California when he was ten.
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Mar 21, 2018 · In July 2016, 22 years after it began as a hobby for Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo agreed to sell its core operating business to Verizon in what Forbes writer...
Jul 25, 2016 · January 1994: In the early days on the internet — when no one knows what content is out there — Jerry Yang and David Filo, two graduate students at Stanford University, create a website...
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