Jerry Yang
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About
Co-founder and one-time CEO of the Yahoo! search engine. His net worth, as of early 2012, was over 1.2 billion dollars.
Before Fame
He attended Stanford University, where he studied electrical engineering.
Trivia
In 2008, he rejected CEO job offers from Microsoft and Google.
Family Life
He married a Japanese woman, Akiko Yamazaki, who was raised in Costa Rica.
Associated With
He opposed his company's takeover by Microsoft and Bill Gates, a widely derided decision that led to him resigning as Yahoo's CEO in 2009.
