Jerry Yang

At Stanford, Yang earned a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering, then dropped out of a Ph.D. program to found Yahoo with David Filo in 1995. Yang served as Yahoo's CEO but stepped down in 2009 after turning down an acquisition offer from Microsoft. He left Yahoo's board in 2012.In 2017, he and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, pledged $25 million to San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, the largest gift in the museum's history. In June 2017, Yahoo completed the sale of its core operating business to Verizon for $4.48 billion in cash. Since 2012, Yang has invested in more than 50 data-related startups through AME Cloud Ventures. He also sits on the board of software firm Workday.