Yahoo at 10: ; Billionaire Founders Continue to Search for Ways to Boost Dotcom Pioneer's Profit
Charleston Gazette › March 01, 2005
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo parlayed Yahoo Inc. from a college hobby into a full-time job 10 years ago, but the Internet icon was never quite comfortable with the happy-go-lucky mood of the dotcom boom.
It's not that Yang and Filo don't like to have fun. After all, they gave their company a name often associated with rubes and adopted a joyful yodel as their calling card.See the full content of this document
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Yahoo at 10: ; Billionaire Founders Continue to Search for Ways to Boost Dotcom Pioneer's Profit
"We were certainly not sophisticated or civilized," Yang joked during an interview with The Associated Press ahead of the March 2 anniversary of Yahoo's inception.
What separated Yahoo's creators from the rest of the dot- com crowd was their desire to create a profitable business as quickly as possible -...See the full content of this document
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