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Who's running for New York City mayor in the Democratic primary

The advent of ranked choice voting makes June 22nd's primary harder than ever to predict, with Andr…

Jake Lahut,John L. Dorman   


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Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang debunks one of the most common startup myths

"I think the Valley has this idea that, 'Oh, if you don't have the great Mark Zuckerberg product te…

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Jerry Yang: Yahoo's early Box competitor 'wasn't a very good product'

Before Box took off and became a public company, it had a meeting with Yahoo's Briefcase team in 20…

Eugene Kim   


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JERRY YANG LAUGHS LAST: 5 Years Later, Yahoo's Share Price Finally Exceeds Microsoft's Final Offer

Current Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer deserves some credit for Yahoo's turnaround, too, of course. In par…

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One of the last things Jerry Yang did at Yahoo helped turn him into a prolific investor

For example, one of his portfolio companies called Infer provides predictive analytics to help busi…

Eugene Kim   


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Yahoo founder Jerry Yang helped this startup come from nowhere to take on Cisco and VMware

Over the past couple of years, before Cisco released its own SDN product, there were a whole bunch …

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BOOM: Watch Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang Nail A Big Putt At Pebble Beach

Yahoo founder, and 9-handicap, Jerry Yang is also in it. We grabbed a clip of him putting. He had b…

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This startup incubator just raised $22 million from Jerry Yang and Paul Maritz by focusing on one area

Tons of companies are springing up that promise to help enterprises make sense of the flood of data…

Eugene Kim   


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Marissa Mayer reflects on what went wrong at Yahoo — and shares the compliment she got that she still remembers

Marissa Mayer said in a recent interview that Yahoo was simply too late to the transition to mobile…

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Sam Altman's leadership advice echoes 2 philosophies encouraged by Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman breaks down the importance of saying no and staying focused — philosophies th…

Jaures Yip   


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OpenAI turmoil is a bad look for its huge funding round, VCs say. 'I would vote with my feet.'

OpenAI is on the verge of closing one of the biggest funding rounds in startup history, but can its…

Darius Rafieyan,Ben Bergman,M…   


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Here is exactly how much I made at Google in a strategy role and why I chose to leave

Jerry Lee, a former strategy and operations manager at Google, shares the salary he made while work…

Aria Yang   


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This app wants to pay you to share your data for advertising

Caden, a new app backed by Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang pays users who share their smartphone data, …

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Stanford just became the latest school to offer free tuition to families making under $100,000 a year

Stanford joins the growing number of schools, like Princeton and Harvard, working to reduce the stu…

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Former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka's company Vianai Systems raises $140 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2

Vianai said it will use new funds to accelerate the delivery of its human-centered AI platform a…

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Tech's ultimate nepo babies: Meet the Drapers, the first family of Silicon Valley

The billionaire Tim Draper and his father have been fixtures of the VC circuit for decades after Ti…

Sindhu Sundar   


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Here's what Yahoo looked like back when it ruled the web

Thanks to The Internet Archive, we can revisit the early days and see exactly what Yahoo used to lo…

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Tech leaders dish on how asinine it is to try to describe their companies, products, and worth to Congress

Tech companies are growing worried that an aging Congress can't meet their needs. But some members …

Hanna Kang,Kayla Gallagher   


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Bernie Sanders is winning the 2020 meme race, but can internet fandom get him elected?

Trump's meme machine and his influence on social media extend far beyond any Democratic candidate a…

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Here's the funny mistake that made Yahoo purple

Yang revealed that when the company was just getting started, he and members of the team had sent F…

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