- David Filo is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang
- His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website
- Find more facts about David Filo below
| Real name: | David Robert Filo | | Born: | 20 April 1966 Comment | | How old is David Filo in 2024? / Age: | 58 years
| | Where was David Filo born? | Wisconsin, U.S.A. | | Residence: | Palo Alto, California, U.S.A. | | Zodiac sign: | Aries |
David Filo Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is David Filo worth? | $2,100,000,000
| | Nationality: | American | | Hair color: | Redish brown | | Eyes color: | Blue |
Who is David Filo? / Facts
- Early life and education - Filo was born in Wisconsin.
At age six, he moved to Moss Bluff, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a B.S. degree in computer engineering at Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and an M.S. degree in 1990 at Stanford University.
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Career - In February 1994, he co-created with Jerry Yang, a classmate at his Stanford Ph.D. program, an Internet website called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web", consisting of a directory of other websites.
It was renamed "Yahoo!" (an exclamation).
Filo started the company in 1995 with Jerry Yang.
The duo dropped out to run Yahoo.
Yahoo! became very popular, and Filo and Yang realized the business potential and co-founded Yahoo! Inc.
Yahoo! started off as a web portal with a web directory providing an extensive range of products and services for various online activities, and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.
Yahoo! sold its core business to Verizon for $5 billion in cash in 2016.
The most valuable part of Yahoo - its stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan - morphed into a company called Altaba. Altaba voted to liquidate in 2019.
Yahoo! is still one of the leading internet brands and, due to partnerships with telecommunications firms, is one of the most visited websites on the internet.
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Personal life - Filo is married to photographer and teacher Angela Buenning.
They have one child, and live in Palo Alto, California.
- Philanthropy - In 2005 he gave $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University, for use in its School of Engineering.
- Activism - Filo and his wife Angela established the Yellow Chair Foundation in 2000 - it supports education, civil liberties, gender equality and the environment.
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Education
- Sam Houston High School
- B.S. degree in computer engineering at Tulane University
- M.S. degree in 1990 at Stanford University
Quotes
It's going to be interesting to see how society adapts to a lot of these changes that AI is bringing to us...I think with that kind of change comes a great opportunity, but kind of both on the positive and potentially negative side.
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Last update: 17 June 2020
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Net worth: $2,100,000,000
