David Filo

Also known as David Robert Filo

American businessman

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David Filo is a United States entrepreneur and computer scientist born in Wisconsin in 1966. He is a male who resides in Palo Alto. Filo was educated at Tulane University of Louisiana and Stanford University, working in the field of computer engineering.

He is the author of one work, titled Yahoo! unplugged. His net worth is listed as 3,800,000,000.

Synthesized by Vinony from 14 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Open Library. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

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Within Vinony's link graph, David Filo is referenced by 300 other articles, and connects out to Yahoo, Jerry Yang and Yahoo! Messenger.

It sits within the topics 1966 births, 20th-century American businesspeople and 21st-century American businesspeople.

Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.

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Works: 1

Top works

Yahoo! unplugged

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Key facts

Born: David Robert Filo , ( 1966-04-20 ) April 20, 1966 (age 60) , Wisconsin , U.S.
Education: Tulane University ( BS ), Stanford University ( MS )
Occupations: Co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc.
Spouse: Angela Buenning

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: David
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Wisconsin
Occupation: computer scientist
Field of work: computer engineering
Image: David Filo.jpg
Residence: Palo Alto

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date of birth: 1966-04-20
Commons category: David Filo
net worth: 3400000000

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Early life and education

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