- Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang
Jerry Yang Chih-Yuan (born November 1968) is a Taiwanese American entreprenuer, co-founder with David Filo and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. He is also one of the two Chief Yahoo!s and board director of the company. As of 2007 his net worth is estimated to be US$2.2 billion and is ranked 432nd among the world's richest people according to Forbes.
- Seth Godin
Godin graduated from Tufts University in 1982 with a degree in computer science and philosophy, and he earned his MBA in marketing from Stanford Business School. From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a brand manager at Spinnaker Software, where he led the team that developed the first generation of multimedia products, working with such forward-thinking authors as Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton .
- Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford is a senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!. He is well known for his work in introducing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). He has also worked on the computerization of media at Atari, Lucasfilm, and Paramount. Crockford was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities (also known as Communities.com) from 1993 to 2001, and the founder and CTO of State Software (also known as Veil Networks) from 2001 to 2002.
- Jeremy Zawodny
Jeremy Zawodny is currently an employee of Yahoo! in the platform engineering group. He has been described as "Yahoo!'s MySQL guru". He maintains a popular weblog focused on Yahoo! initiatives, which is listed in CNET News.com's index of the 100 best technology-related blogs. According to CNET, Zawodny has "helped put MySQL and other open-source technologies to use".
- Danny Sullivan
Danny wrote Yahoo Surveys Search Rewards Idea where he covers a News.com article showing how a group of Yahoo! Mail users were offered "10 different potential reward options" to take a Yahoo! search survey. Kinda funny, I told them they should do this at last years SES San Jose conference - that they don't have to necessarily pay money to get answers. I am sure it wasn't my influence, since it did take almost a year to implement.
- Terry Semel
Terry Semel was born on February 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.. His father was a women's coat designer and his mother was a bus company executive. Terry was raised in Bay Terrace, a community in Bayside, Queens. He was the middle child and has two sisters. At the age of 23, he graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn with a B.S. degree in accounting.
- Paul Graham
Paul Graham (b. Weymouth, England, 1964) is a Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of "On Lisp" (1993), "ANSI Common Lisp" (1995), and "Hackers & Painters" (2004).
- David Filo
David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering from Tulane University (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and a MS from Stanford University. Until the company recently decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, …
- Tom Coates
Tom Coates (Born 19 July 1972) is an early weblogger based in London, England, who has been writing plasticbag.org since 1999. He's also well-known as an expert in social software and for his thinking on future media distribution and the web of data. Educated at the Norwich School, the University of Bristol and the London College of Printing, Coates currently works for Yahoo! Tech Development with Caterina Fake and Jeremy Zawodny.
- Susan Decker
Susan L. Decker is the President of Yahoo! Inc.. Previously she was director of Costco Corporation. She graduated from Tufts University with Bachelor of Science in computer science and economics. She then graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School. Susan Decker is on the board of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, Intel and Costco.
- Susan Mernit
Susan Mernit (b. January 23) is an executive at Yahoo! Personals, a technology and media consultant based in Palo Alto, California and a former vice president of Netscape and America Online. As an executive, Mernit launched several corporate media sites since introducing Scholastic Press on America Online in 1992. She developed the children's educational site Yuckiest Site on the Internet with Jeff Jarvis and served as the editor of New Jersey Online.
- Bill Gross
Bill Gross serves as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Idealab which he founded in March 1996. While at Idealab, Bill has started many successful businesses including Overture Services, Cars Direct / Internet Brands, Picasa, and Energy Innovations.
- Stewart Butterfield
Stewart Butterfield (born 1973) is a Canadian-born entrepreneur and businessman. He co-founded the photo sharing website Flickr and its parent company Ludicorp with his wife Caterina Fake. In March 2005 Ludicorp was acquired by Yahoo!, where Butterfield now serves as a Director of Product Management. Butterfield received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Victoria, and an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge, where he specialized in the philosophy of biology, …
- Udi Manber
Udi Manber , Vice President, Engineering
- Joshua Schachter
Joshua Schachter (born 1974) (pronounced) is the creator of del.icio.us, creator of geoURL and co-creator of Memepool. On March 29 2005, he announced he would work full-time on the del.icio.us project. Joshua's popular del.icio.us website helped to popularize the use of tags on the web, particularly within the blogging community. On December 9 2005, del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo!, Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
- Caterina Fake
What she does: The co-founder of Flickr (now owned by Yahoo), Fake was one of the pioneers of the site-based photo sharing model. Before Flickr, sharing photographs meant sending them piecemeal as email attachments. The site is now widely used as a photo repository by individuals and companies alike. How she got there: Fake graduated with a BA in English from Vassar.
- Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish-Greenlandic programmer and the creator of the PHP programming language. He authored the first two versions. Rasmus also participated in the development of later versions of PHP led by a group of developers including Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, who later founded Zend Technologies.
- Jeremy Siegel
Jeremy Siegel (born November 14, 1945) is the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Siegel comments extensively on the economy and financial markets - he appears regularly on networks like CNN, CNBC and NPR, and writes regular columns for Kiplinger's Personal Finance and Yahoo! Finance.
- Lloyd Braun
Lloyd Braun (born 1959) has been a creative force behind a number of successful television programs. His first major success came with producer David Chase for their idea for the show "The Sopranos". He went on to serve as the Chairman of the ABC Entertainment Group from 2002 to 2004. Braun was fired from his position at ABC for overseeing one of the least productive eras in the network's history (ABC had slipped to 4th behind NBC, CBS and FOX), …
- Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website, Bloglines, and a Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006. Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005. In February 2005, Fletcher won one of the annual Rave Awards, presented by "Wired" magazine. Fellow nominees in the Tech Innovator category were Jimmy Wales who is a co-founder of Wikipedia, Adam Curry, Bill Healy and Zhang Zuoyi.
- Wang Xiaoning
Wang Xiaoning is a Chinese dissident from Shenyang who was arrested by authorities of the People's Republic of China for publishing controversial material online. In 2000 and 2001, Wang, who was an engineer by profession, posted electronic journals in a Yahoo! group calling for democratic reform and an end to single-party rule. He was arrested in September 2002 after Yahoo! assisted Chinese authorities by providing information.
- Mark Brooks
Mark Brooks is a comic book artist from Lilburn, Georgia who is currently signed to an exclusive contract with Marvel comics. He is an alumnus of the Savannah College of Art and Design and is known for his manga-influenced style and incredible detail in drawing backgrounds and scenery. Brooks is well-known for his stints on Cable & Deadpool, Marvel Age, and New X-Men; but gained critical acclaim for his cover art on the Spider-Man offshoot Araña, …
- Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Li Zhi
Li Zhi was sentenced to eight years imprisonment in December 2003 in the People's Republic of China for trying to join the China Democratic Party, which is a banned organization in communist China, and for criticizing corruption (ironically suffering the same fate for the same crime as his name sake). It is alleged that part of the evidence against him, namely details of his e-mail account, …
- Charles Wheelan
Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer in the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies. Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer in the Harris School. He received an M.P.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School in 1993 and a Ph.D. in public policy from the Harris School in 1998.
- Li Zhi
Li Zhi (1527-1602) was a prominent Chinese philosopher, historian and writer in the late Ming dynasty. He was born in Jinjiang, Fujian province, the descendant of a Persian woman from which his seven generation grand father married. He is also often referred to by his courtesy name Zhuowu (卓吾). His philosophy was based upon the Neo-Confucianism. Strongly disagreeing with assimilating oneself to conventional behavior, Li Zhi tried to spread his ideas.
- Alex Steffen
Alex Steffen Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of work exploring ways of building a better future. In a very short time, Worldchanging has become the most widely-read sustainability-related publication on the Internet, with an archive of over 7,000 articles by leading thinkers around the world.
- Dan Wetzel
Dan Wetzel is an author, screenwriter, and national sports columist for Yahoo.com. He is the author of the sports-related books "Sole Influence", "Glory Road", and "Runnin' Rebel." As a sports journalist, he has covered NASCAR, college football, the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, and the Olympics.
- Doug Cutting
Doug Cutting is an advocate and creator of open-source search technology. He originated the Lucene and, with Mike Cafarella, the Nutch open-source search technology projects, which are now managed through the Apache Software Foundation. Prior to developing Lucene, Doug held search technology positions at Excite and Xerox PARC. Lucene, a search indexer, and Nutch, a spider or crawler, are the two key components of an open-source general search platform, …
- Andrei Broder
Andrei Broder is a Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo!. He previously has worked for AltaVista as the vice president of research, and for IBM Research as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis. Broder's research centers around the internet, and internet searching. He is credited with being one of the first people to develop a CAPTCHA, while working for AltaVista.
- Courtenay Semel
Courtenay Jane Semel (b. November 11, 1979 in Beverly Hills, California) is the daughter of former Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel. She appeared on the E! network's reality series "Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive".
- Randy Farmer
F. Randall "Randy" Farmer has organized online communities. He is probably most famous for his role creating one of the first graphical online MMOG, Lucasfilm's "Habitat", with Chip Morningstar.
- Terry Bowden
Terry Bowden is a college football analyst/commentator, motivational speaker and former college football coach. Bowden is the son of Florida State head football coach Bobby Bowden. His siblings include Tommy Bowden, the head football coach at Clemson and Jeff Bowden, former offensive coordinator at Florida State. Bowden currently serves as the color commentator for the Westwood One radio network's national NCAA game of the week, …
- Kent Brewster
Kent Brewster (born 1961) is a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated writer, editor, and publisher. He has been the publisher of "Speculations", a magazine of science fiction and other speculative fiction, since its inception in 1994 with the magazine being published online since 1999. Brewster was born in the UK but lives and works in Silicon Valley, as a Technical Evangelist for Yahoo!. His web-based prototypes and demonstrations include Flickrball, SpiffY!Search, …
- Mafiaboy
MafiaBoy (Mike Calce) was the Internet alias of a high school student from the upscale area of The West Island in Montreal, Canada who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN. Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act forbids Canadian news outlets from publication of MafiaBoy's real name in connection with this incident.
- Dan Gilbert
Daniel "Dan" Gilbert is the Chairman and founder of Rock Finanical and Quicken Loans Inc. Dan Gilbert is also the majority owner of the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers (having purchased them in March 2005). He then purchased the American Hockey League's Utah Grizzlies and brought them to Cleveland, and renamed them the Lake Erie Monsters.
- Ashwin Navin
Ashwin Navin is the President and Co-Founder of BitTorrent, Inc. He joined Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent, in 2004 and reportedly handles strategy, business and company-related matters while Cohen focuses on engineering and product development. Before BitTorrent, Navin worked at Yahoo! from 2002 to 2004 in its Corporate Development group which handled corporate strategy and acquisitions.
- Farzad Nazem
Farzad Nazem (born in 1962) also known as Zod Nazem, was Yahoo!'s chief technology officer and one of its longest-serving executives. He announced that he would leave the company on June 8, 2007 after 11 years at Yahoo. He will receive a golden parachute worth about $6.9 million. He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the California Polytechnic State University.
- Mike Harmon
Mike Harmon, formerly a staff writer at Yahoo! Sports is currently an analyst at Fox Sports and is a featured columnist at a number of websites. Harmon worked directly for Yahoo! Sports from 1999-2004, aiding the development of a myriad of fantasy sports games including Yahoo! Sport's Fantasy Football. Harmon was one of the first sports writers to pick up on fantasy games. Harmon is a member of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, has written for MLB.com, …
- Megan Burns
Megan Burns (born June 25 1986) is a British musician and former award-winning actress from Liverpool, England. She played Hannah in the feature film "28 Days Later" (2002) and won the Marcello Mastroianni award at the Venice film festival for her performance in "Liam" (2000). She has since embarked upon a music career, under the pseudonym "Betty Curse", which has been manufactured by the Island Records Group.