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Jerry Yang is a male American entrepreneur, computer scientist, businessperson, and art collector. Born in Taipei on November 6, 1968, he is a citizen of the United States and resides in Los Altos Hills. He is of Taiwanese American and Taiwanese ethnic descent. Yang attended Stanford University and serves on the board of directors. His notable work includes Yahoo, and he is characterized as a billionaire with a net worth of 1,800,000,000.
Yang has authored the book *All In*. His academic and professional output includes 162 works, which have been cited 5,548 times, resulting in an h-index of 37. His research concepts span Chemistry, Biophysics, Biology, Biochemistry, and Organic chemistry. Additionally, Crossref lists five works associated with him.
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- Works
- 1
Top works
- All In
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Key facts
- Born
- Yang Chih-Yuan , ( 1968-11-06 ) November 6, 1968 (age 57) , Taipei , Taiwan
- Education
- Stanford University ( BS , MS )
- Occupations
- Founding Partner, AME Cloud Ventures
- Spouse
- Akiko Yamazaki
- Relatives
- Chih-Kong Ken Yang (brother)
- Traditional chinese
- 楊 致 遠
- Simplified chinese
- 杨 致 远
- Hanyu pinyin
- Yáng Zhìyuǎn
- Hokkien poj
- iông tì oán
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jerry
- Family name
- Yang
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Taipei
- Occupation
- art collector
- Notable work
- Yahoo
- Image
- Jerry yang 2010(4555102908).jpg
- Residence
- Los Altos Hills
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- Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)
- date of birth
- 1968-11-06
- name in native language
- 楊致遠
- net worth
- 1800000000
- member of
- board of directors
- has characteristic
- billionaire
- ethnic group
- Taiwanese people
- subject has role
- billionaire
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Encyclopedic overview
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese-born American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures. As of May 2025, Yang has a net worth of $3.1 billion.
Early life and education
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