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PROFILE
Jerry Yang
Cofounder, Yahoo!
$3.1B
$4M (0.13%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 10/21/26
Reflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
Ethan Pines for Forbes
From the Editor
Last Updated Jul 15, 2026, 6:30am EDT
- Yang cofounded web portal Yahoo in 1995 after dropping out of a Ph.D. program in electrical engineering at Stanford.
- Yang served as Yahoo's CEO from 2007 to 2009; he left Yahoo's board in 2012.
- In 2017, he and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, pledged $25 million to San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, the largest gift in the museum's history.
- In 2016, Yahoo completed the sale of its core operating business to Verizon for $5 billion in cash.
- Yang founded AME Cloud Ventures, which bets on data-driven startups. Through his fund and personally, Yang has made several impact-minded investments.
- Yang began a two-year term as chair of the board of trustees at Stanford, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees, in July 2021.
Wealth History
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Forbes Lists
list appearances
30
Personal Stats
- Age
- 57
- Source of Wealth
- Yahoo, Self Made
- Residence
- Los Altos Hills, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University; Master of Science, Stanford University
Did you know
In Their Own Words
When I told my Mom that I was stepping out of my Ph.D. to start a company and basically sell "Internet advertising" for a living, she wasn't too keen on the idea, but she supported me. These days, she doesn't complain very much!
Jerry Yang
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