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Chief Yahoo! Chih-Yuan Yang, better known as Jerry Yang, was born in Taiwan in 1968. His father died when he was two and Yang and his brother Ken were raised by their mother Lily, an English and drama teacher. Ten-year-old Yang quickly adapted when the family emigrated to California and says he was speaking "like a native" within two years. Yang's mother said that he was inquisitive from the day he learned to speak, a trait that would certainly become useful.

With straight A's in high school, Yang attended Stanford University and received a BS and MS in electrical engineering. During this time, Yang asserts that future business partner David Filo was his teaching assistant. Filo doesn't recall but, regardless, the two met up again in 1993 while working on a doctoral research project on computer-aided design of computer chip circuitry. The two shared an office in a trailer with two computers, a sleeping bag and a litter of golf clubs. It was in this environment tha...

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