Jerry Yang Quotes

Jerry Yang

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 6, 1968

I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.

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Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop - by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants - by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.

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The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.

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If you're not in the game to win, you shouldn't be in the game.

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I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.

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I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

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Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.

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I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

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I believe Yahoo!'s best years are still ahead of it.

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Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

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We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.

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My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.

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Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

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I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

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The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

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You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think.

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I'm a Stanford kid through and through.

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China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

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Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

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Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors, cloud and big data. I am bullish on Scanadu and its potential to revolutionize the way we think about our health.

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