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1994–2012: Yahoo! years. While studying at Stanford in 1994, Yang and David Filo co-created an Internet website called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," which consisted of a directory of other websites. As it grew in popularity they renamed it "Yahoo! Inc."
David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate 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.
It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were electrical engineering graduates when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages.
Learn how the co-founders of Yahoo! Inc. created the world's most popular search engine and became multimillionaires by following their passion and procrastination. Read about their journey from Stanford students to Internet pioneers, their challenges and achievements, and their vision for the future.
Learn about Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! with David Filo, and his leadership style and achievements. Find out his biography, education, initiatives, and challenges in the 20th century.
David Filo — Yahoo! Co-founder. David Filo co-created the Jerry and Dave’s guide to the World Wide Web in April 1994 with fellow Stanford grad student Jerry Yang. The two co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995 and helped it become one of the most recognized brands on the Internet.
Learn how two Stanford PhD students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, created Yahoo in 1994 as a hobby project to catalog the web. Discover how they named it, grew it, and sold it in this oral history podcast.
