The Yangs – $2.6B
Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese American engineer who met David Filo at Standard. Together, they worked on a small web portal that eventually brought them more money than they could have imagined. That was how Yahoo! Was founded. Yang was in charge of the business side of the company and spearheaded many important buys for the company. He has since left the company, but he has launched many successful hedge funds and firms. He is currently working for Alibaba.
The Yangs – $2.6B
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