David Filo and Jerry Yang, the twentysomething cofounders of search engine Yahoo!
Early on David Filo, now 34, turned away from business and focused on building a supple architecture that could scale up to handle Yahoo's growing audience.
Yahoo co-founder David Filo also has met with employees for mentoring sessions and to help with projects, a role he has played before, these people said.
And it is only five years since Yahoo started out as an eccentric list of cool sites online, compiled by Stanford classmates Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Yahoo 's ( YHOO - news - people ) David Filo and Jerry Yang, who first made the ranks a dozen years ago.
Web 1.0 billionaires on the list include one-time AOL chief Steve Case, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, and Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Jerry (and David Filo) deserves all the credit for building an iconic company that makes so much money from its core business that it can have the luxury of doing this.
And would Jerry Yang (and David Filo) support it?
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Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo!
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As dean of the school of engineering from 1996 to 1999, he mentored many of the students who went on to build Internet firms, including Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo.
He describes the time, in the mid-nineties, when Jerry Yang and David Filo took him to visit their campus trailer, which was littered with pizza boxes and soda cans, to show off a directory of Web sites called Yahoo.
President Susan Decker said co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo didn't know exactly how much more Microsoft was willing to pay when they left a meeting in Seattle on Saturday with Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and a division president, Kevin Johnson.
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