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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.
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.
Jun 21, 2024 · Jerry Yang and David Filo first met when both were students at Stanford in 1989. Filo was a teacher’s assistant in a computer architecture class in which Yang was enrolled.
Yahoo! was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates at Stanford University 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 27, 2017 · Documentary on Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang and the creation of their internet search engine and Silicon Valley company, Yahoo!
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The story of Filo and Yang's success begins at Stanford University, where the two doctoral candidates were involved in a project to create computer chips using computer-aided design.
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Yang and fellow Stanford University doctoral student, David Filo, created the precursor to Yahoo! to aid them in their use of the burgeoning world wide web. What began as a simple hobby eventually turned into one of the few success stories of the nineties Internet boom.
