David Filo

David Filo
David Filo, May 2007
Born	April 20, 1966 (1966-04-20) (age 45)[1] Wisconsin, United States
Residence	Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Tulane University Stanford University
Occupation	Co-founder and Chief Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc.
Salary	US$100,000 per year[2]
Net worth	US $ 1.4 billion (est.) (March 2011)[3]
Spouse	Angela Buenning

David Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang.

Until the company decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side scripting software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to the Yahoo! web site.

Personal life and education

Filo was born in Wisconsin. At age 6, he moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and an MS from Stanford University.

In 2011, Filo was estimated to be worth $1.4 billion, ranking him the 879th richest person in the world.^[4] As a philanthropist, in 2005 he donated $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University, for use in its School of Engineering.

Filo is married to photographer and teacher Angela Buenning.^[5]

Career

In April 1994 he co-created with Jerry Yang an Internet website called "Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web" consisting of a directory of other websites. It was renamed "Yahoo!" (an exclamation). 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 online activities. It is now one of the leading internet brands and, due to partnerships with telecommunications firms, has the most trafficked network on the internet.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)
• Yahoo!

References

• David Filo. Yahoo! management team.

1. ^ peopleandprofiles.com
2. ^ "Yahoo! 2011 Proxy Statement". http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/YHOO/1339034542x0x464920/0368bf48-b7ed-4222-8ee1-f61c585fbe81/YHOO_2011_Proxy_Statement.pdf. Retrieved 28 July 2011. 
3. ^ "Forbes 400 Richest Americans: #356 David Filo". Forbes. September 2010. http://www.forbes.com/profile/david-filo. 
4. ^ Forbes.com Profile of David Filo
5. ^ Another billionaire drops

External links

• MetroActive: A Couple of Yahoos
• Michael Moritz interviews David Filo et al. at TechCrunch40 conference video

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Name	Filo, David
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Date of birth	April 20, 1966
Place of birth	Wisconsin, US
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