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      • A: After leaving Yahoo!, Jerry Yang became a venture capitalist and co-founded AME Cloud Ventures, a firm that supports early-stage startups. He has also been an active philanthropist, particularly in the field of education.
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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jerry_YangJerry Yang - Wikipedia

    In January 2012, Yahoo! announced that Yang was leaving the company and would be resigning from the board and all other positions at the company. The company also announced his resignation from the boards of Yahoo!

  3. Jul 25, 2016 · In 2005, Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang pulled off what would be one of the greatest strategic investments in tech history: he arranged for Yahoo to spend $1 billion for a 40% stake in...

  4. Jun 21, 2024 · Yang served in a number of leadership positions, including CEO, but stepped down in 2008 after refusing to sell the company to Microsoft. He left Yahoo’s board four years later. He left...

  5. Jan 17, 2012 · Yang, who was involved in both Yahoo’s rise to Internet titan in the late 1990s and early 2000s and its fall from grace in the past six years, resigned effective Tuesday from all his posts at...

  6. He initially turned down a $40 billion acquisition by Microsoft, was eventually ousted as CEO, and Yahoo!’s long slide continued. It’s hard to assess his legacy: On the one hand, that Microsoft deal would have been far larger than Yahoo!’s eventual sale to Verizon.

  7. Jan 18, 2012 · SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc co-founder Jerry Yang has quit the company he started in 1995, appeasing shareholders who had blasted the Internet pioneer for pursuing an ineffective...

  8. Jan 18, 2012 · Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo!, has resigned from its board. Mr Yang founded the online company in 1995 with David Filo and was its chief executive from June 2007 until January 2009....

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