Who founded Yahoo?

/kloc-Jonathan swift, a satirist in the 8th century, used the word yahoo in his classic novel Gulliver's Travels. He was a humanoid beast and sent out "yahoo" as a surprise.

The two founders of Yahoo, Americans David Philo and Yang Zhiyuan (who moved to the United States from Taiwan Province Province), adopted the nickname Yahoo when they started their company, because both founders liked Yahoo's dictionary definition: an unsophisticated, rude and simple person.

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When Yang Zhiyuan immigrated to the United States from Taipei with his parents, he was only a pupil aged 10. After 17 years, Yang Zhiyuan has become the "Yahoo! ), the founder of ",is also a young corporate star in the global information industry.

In fact, it is no exaggeration to call him a "star", because "Yahoo" attracted much attention the next day when it was listed on the Wall Street stock market in New York. Its share price rose from 13 to 33 dollars, an increase of more than 2.5 times, and it raised more than 2 billion dollars for the company, becoming another rocket-like technology stock, which made the world full of expectations for new shares. Yang Zhiyuan, the founder of Yahoo, a 28-year-old Chinese American, became a billionaire and another man of the stock market in one day. The "express train" into expressway.

Yahoo has been listed for less than a year. Yang Zhiyuan stands at the forefront of the development of emerging technologies with his diligence, wisdom and verve, which makes this playful and lively company full of vitality.

Yahoo is a professional computer network application software company, which is different from the general traditional computer software industry. It focuses on the application market of computer network and establishes a retrieval system similar to the network telephone book. This software, called Yahoo Search System, classifies global websites into 14 categories, such as art, education, health, region, computer and network. The launch of Yahoo can prevent computer users from entering a huge database and spending a lot of time just looking for a topic of interest when searching for information on expressway. Through this software, users can choose according to their own wishes, and find the desired website among hundreds of thousands of topics on the international network in the shortest time.

The establishment of Yahoo is full of drama. 1At the end of 993, Yang Zhiyuan, who was studying for a doctorate in electrical engineering at the Institute of Electrical Engineering of Stanford University, began to use the global network. Both he and his younger brother david filo feel that they have extensive international contacts, and it often takes a long time to find a topic. If a set of search software can be established and organized in a systematic and classified way, it will be very convenient to use network information.

So, from 65438 to 0994, Yang Zhiyuan, who was only 25 years old, started with a computer named "Akebono" (the name of a famous Japanese-American sumo wrestler) and began to publish a data search manual (global data directory software) on the World Wide Web. As for why it was named "Yahoo (Ya-hoo! ), Yang Zhiyuan said: "We found this name in Gulliver's travel brochure. We think Yahoo represents inexperienced and uneducated foreign tourists, which is very similar to us computer people, so we use Yahoo! As the name of this software. "Of course, for the outside world, they will refer to Yahoo! It is "another Oracle Bone Inscriptions with a hierarchical office" (Oracle Bone Inscriptions is another computer software), while Jerry Yang and Philo call themselves "Chief Yahoo! ",Yahoo! The length of the clan!

Because many netizens entered the workstation of the electrical engineering department of Stanford University to use this software, the school was greatly troubled, complaining that this invention affected the normal operation of the school computer. Here, Yang Zhiyuan and his colleagues are actively looking for potential investors. The first person they found was Randy Adams, a successful entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and the founder of the Internet shopping network. Adams not only helped Yahoo to be born, but also introduced Yahoo to Sequoia Capital, a venture capital company in Silicon Valley, to help Yahoo plan to go public. Adams said: "World-famous corporate figures will appear in Silicon Valley every few years, and Yang Zhiyuan is one of them."

Yang Zhiyuan and Philo decided to give up their upcoming doctoral degrees, because they thought it was more important to continue developing software than to complete doctoral research courses, which was a golden opportunity to launch software, so they joined hands to set up Yahoo! Software company. It is not easy for him to make such a choice; "Education is very important in my family, however, my family knows better that he runs Yahoo. Such an opportunity is rare and should not be missed. I plan to return to Stanford to complete my doctorate in the future, and now I will go all out to develop Yahoo! "

Yang Zhiyuan's "Yahoo" provides indexing software to users free of charge, and the company's profit mainly depends on advertising revenue. Since Yahoo was founded, there are as many as 70 million users every week, and Yahoo adds more than 200 new directories to the software every day. At present, Yahoo uses two T3 special lines and more than 40 computers, and handles nearly10 million queries every day, with a satisfactory speed. Because the "Yahoo" retrieval system is really convenient, the prospects are generally optimistic, and the advertising revenue is also quite optimistic. As a result, Yahoo became a blockbuster as soon as it went public.

Measure quantity by quality.

Yahoo's success lies in that it is the first retrieval software company to enter the market, and it has established a set of convenient and powerful information retrieval system for the future information world. In numerous competitions, Alta Vista Web, a digital device that can compete with Yahoo at present, claims that its database can index 22 million web pages; Relatively speaking, "Yahoo"

Only over 200,000 web pages can be indexed. In order to meet this challenge, "Yahoo" immediately announced that it would provide texts in the form of classified catalogues. "This is to use quality to counter quantity." Yang Zhiyuan said that "Yahoo" can let you get what you need in a short time as soon as you open the desktop publishing, but it is difficult for Alta-Vista network to do this. Because the products developed by Yahoo have both development and commercial prospects, some famous computer and information companies, including Reuters and news media companies, are interested in cooperating with it. At present, Yahoo's largest investor is Japan's Softbank, which holds 37% of Yahoo's shares. At that time, the stock market value reached1083 million US dollars.

The rise of "Yahoo" is a symbol of the development of the online world, which has attracted the attention of the information industry and the stock market industry, and Yang Zhiyuan himself has become one of the youngest celebrities in the Chinese world. This 10-year-old young man who moved to the United States with his family has no family background. He started from not knowing English at all, became a doctoral student at Stanford University, and finally succeeded in starting a business and made achievements in the emerging field of information science. After Yahoo established its company in Japan in April this year, it has become the largest search company in Japan in a short time. In the middle of the year, "Yahoo" set up a company in Canada, and then planned to enter Europe, followed by China people, Southeast Asians and Koreans.

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Besides being fascinated by computers, Yang Zhiyuan has a wide range of hobbies. After work, he likes playing basketball, hiking, riding mountain bikes and so on. Four years ago, he became interested in Japanese sumo in Japan, thinking that sumo sport contains Japanese culture and tradition and is a symbol of honor. In literature and art, Yang Zhiyuan likes to read Gio's Treasure House, Moore's novel Crossing the Grand Canyon and Ian Morrison's The Second Curve. 1996 His favorite movie is Independence Day, and his favorite music is Growth Count, Hootie, Puffer and their albums. In his spare time, Yang Zhiyuan can also cook Chinese food. As the saying goes, there is a woman behind every successful man, and Yang Zhiyuan is no exception. "My girlfriend is Akkiko. What makes me most gratified is that no matter what my mood is and whether my work is smooth or not, she always supports me and gives me spiritual strength; She will tolerate my' crazy' attitude towards life and work and respect everything about me. "

Yang Zhiyuan said, "Yahoo! Being famous in the United States is a new brand on the international network, just as CNN established its leading position when cable TV developed. Yahoo! Will use its reputation to make various investments, as long as the international network exists, there will be Yahoo! . "At present, Yahoo is the most popular, advanced and effective international online index company in the world. According to a survey conducted by Yankelorich, Yahoo is the most famous among many leading international online data search brands. Yang Zhiyuan believes that in the 2 1 century, digital information will inevitably continue to penetrate into our daily life and communication, shortening the distance between the country and the people. He wants Yahoo! Can continue to play a leading role in the progress and revolution of the information industry.

Facing the emerging information technology field with rapid development and fierce competition, Yang Zhiyuan said ambitiously: "I want to enter the information service market with Yahoo. We are the first search system company to enter the market and hope to be the last one to quit. "

Yang Zhiyuan believes that in the next decade, the international network retrieval business will continue to develop rapidly. He believes that the advanced telecommunications infrastructure of the whole family will enable people to use the indexing system better and faster, and other optional tools for accessing the international network will also appear, which will enable people to continue to explore new functions of the international network. But who will accomplish this great mission? Yang Zhiyuan said: "After 2000, China people, whether in Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong or Chinese mainland, will be recognized by the world as the best talents to study science."