Jerry Yang Quotes

Jerry Yang

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 6, 1968

Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.

Jerry Yang

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.

Jerry Yang

The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.

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The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.

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Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.

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Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.

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Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.

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Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

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Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.

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People are getting patents on things that are too general.

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It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.

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Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

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The Yahoo story is still being written.

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I'm not sure at all that I'm any good at this mentoring/investing business - that's why I'm using my own money, and that's why it's not a career.

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The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

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In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.

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I started collecting in the late 1990s. My first purchase was from an auction, a scroll by Dong Qichang, from the early 16th century, the late Ming Dynasty.

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There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

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Yahoo is a consumer brand. It is a consumer brand that allows people to get what they want from the Internet in a way that only Yahoo can deliver it.

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The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

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