- Co-founder of Yahoo!.
- (18 June) Replaced Terry Semel as CEO of Yahoo! (2007)
- In 1999 Yang was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
- While a graduate student at Stanford University, with his cohort David Filo, he founded "Jerry & David's Guide To The World Wide Web." It eventually evolved into Yahoo.
- In 2017 Yang and his wife pledged $25 million to the Asian Art Museum.
- In late 2012 and early 2013, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco exhibited selections from the Chinese calligraphy collection belonging to Yang and his wife. He began the collection in the late 1990s; it contains about 250 pieces. These selections also appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 2014 exhibition "Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy.".
- His Ph.D. dissertation was on computer-aided design.
- Founding Partner of the venture capital firm AME Cloud Ventures.
- In 2007 Yang and his wife gave $75 million to Stanford University, their alma mater, $50 million of which went to building the "Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building", a multi-disciplinary research, teaching and lab building designed with sustainable architecture principles.
- Received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
- In 2005 Yang convince Yahoo!'s board to purchase a 40% stake in Alibaba for $1 billion plus the assets of Yahoo! China, valued at $700 million. In 2012 Yahoo! sold a portion of its stake in Alibaba for $7.6 billion and then an additional $9.4 billion in Alibaba's 2014 IPO.
- Co-founded www.newsbreak.com in 2015.
- Has served on the boards of Yahoo! (1995-2012), Cisco (2000-2012), Alibaba Group (2006-2012; 2014- ), Stanford University Board of Trustees, Workday, Inc. (2013- ), Curbside (2013- ) and Lenovo Group Ltd (Observer) (2013- ).
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