Editing Jerry Yang (section)

== Early life and education ==
Yang was born Yang Chih-Yuan in [[Taipei, Taiwan]], on November 6, 1968.<ref name="A to Z of Computer Scientists"/> His mother was a professor of English and drama and his father died when he was two. Yang has a younger brother, [[Chih-Kong Ken Yang]].<ref name=Parmy>Parmy Olson for Forbes.On September 30, 2014. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/09/30/how-jerry-yang-made-the-most-lucrative-bet-in-tech-history/ Finding Alibaba: How Jerry Yang Made The Most Lucrative Bet In Silicon Valley History]</ref><ref name=Time2008>{{cite magazine|last1=Pickert|first1=Kate|title=Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang|url=http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1860424,00.html|magazine=Time|date=November 19, 2008}}</ref> In 1978, his mother moved the family to [[San Jose, California]], where his grandmother and extended family took care of the boys while his mother taught English to other immigrants.<ref name=Parmy/><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 15, 2021 |title=Jerry Yang elected chair of Stanford University Board of Trustees |url=https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2021/01/jerry-yang-elected-chair-stanford-university-board-trustees |access-date=October 8, 2024 |website=Stanford News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Pickert |first=Kate |date=November 19, 2008 |orig-date=November 19, 2008 |title=Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang |url=https://time.com/archive/6904897/yahoo-ceo-jerry-yang/ |url-status=live |access-date=October 8, 2024 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}</ref> After moving to the [[United States|US]], Yang took the American name Jerry; his mother, Lily; and his younger brother, Ken.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sherman|first1=Josepha|title=Jerry Yang and David Filo : chief yahoos of Yahoo!|date=2001|publisher=Twenty-First Century Books|location=Brookfield, Conn.|isbn=9780761319610|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/jerryyangdavidfi00sher}}</ref> He says that he only knew one English word, "shoe", when he came to America, but became fluent in English in about three years.<ref name=Fortune2000>{{cite news | url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/06/275253/index.htm | first=Brent | last=Schlender | title=How A Virtuoso Plays The Web | work=Fortune  | date=March 6, 2000 | access-date=November 8, 2008 }}</ref>

During his time at San Jose, Yang attended Ruskin Elementary School, Sierramont Middle, and Piedmont Hills High School. He graduated from [[Piedmont Hills High School]] and went on to earn both a [[Bachelor of Science]] and a [[Master of Science]] in [[electrical engineering]] from [[Stanford University]] in four years.<ref name=Fortune2000/> He met [[David Filo]] at Stanford in 1989, and the two went to Japan in 1992 for a six-month exchange program, where he met his future wife, Akiko Yamazaki, also participating in the exchange program.<ref name=Fortune2000/>