David Filo
| David Filo | |
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 Yahoo! co-founder David Filo |
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| Born | 1966 Wisconsin, |
| Occupation | Co-founder and Chief Yahoo!, Yahoo! Inc. |
| Salary | $40,000,000 |
| Net worth |  $2.9 billion USD (2006) |
| Website | http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/management.cfm |
David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang.
David Filo, at age 6, 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 a MS from Stanford University.
Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, written in C, would provide Filo Server Pages that brokered requests from the Yahoo! home page.
According to Forbes, in 2006, Filo is worth an estimated $2.9 billion, ranking him the 240th richest person in the world. As a philanthropist, in 2005 he donated $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University, for use in its School of Engineering.
See also
External links
- Yahoo! Bio
- Stanford Jerry Yang and David Filo Bio
- Mark & Marc Interview
- MetroActive: A Couple of Yahoos
- David Filo video interview with Reuters, February 2006
- Michael Moritz interviews David Filo et al at TechCrunch40 conference video
- David Filo at the Notable Names Database
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