Profil Financier
David Filo occupe actuellement le rang #818 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur technologie). Fortune nette estimée : $5.2 B ($0 sur 24h).
David Filo cofounded Yahoo, which sold its core business to Verizon for $5 billion in cash in 2016.
The most valuable part of Yahoo - its stakes in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan - morphed into a company called Altaba. Altaba voted to liquidate in 2019.
Filo and his wife Angela established the Yellow Chair Foundation in 2000; it supports education, civil liberties, gender equality and the environment.
In 2004, Filo donated $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University, for engineering and computer science scholarships.
Filo's wife Angela, a photographer and educator, sits on Stanford's Board of Trustees. David got a master's degree from Stanford in 1990.
Originally called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," Yahoo was named after a word from Gulliver's Travels that meant "rude, unsophisticated."