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| Born | Louisiana, US |
| Occupation(s) | Co-founder and Chief Yahoo!, Yahoo! Inc. |
| Website | http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/management.cfm |
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David Filo is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang.
David Filo is a native of 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 and a MS from Stanford University.
Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP (A programming language for creating dynamic websites), his Filo Server Program, written in C, would provide Filo Server Pages that brokered requests from the Yahoo! home page.
According to Forbes, in 2005, Filo was worth an estimated $3 billion, ranking #73 in the wealthiest of Americans.
As a philanthropist, in 2005 he donated $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University.
External links
- Yahoo! Bio
- Fortune Magazine Bio
- Stanford Jerry Yang and David Filo Bio
- Mark & Marc Interview
- MetroActive: A Couple of Yahoos
- David Filo video interview with Reuters, February 2006
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