A biography for Jerry Yanghasn’t been written yet.
“Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.”
“People regard Yahoo as a platform for essential services, and it's had a profound impact on the way people obtain information, communicate, and their entertainment.”
“It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.”
“Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.”
“I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.”
“I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?”
“The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.”
“The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.”
“I will never be a CEO again.”
“People are getting patents on things that are too general.”
“We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.”
“Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.”
“Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.”
“Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.”
“Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.”
“I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.”
“The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.”
“My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.”
“I haven't gotten any calls to run GM.”
“I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.”