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David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo!
Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an United States public company corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, , and provides Internet services worldwide....
 with Jerry Yang.

David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana
Moss Bluff, Louisiana

Moss Bluff is a census-designated place in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana, United States. The population was 10,535 at the 2000 United States Census....
, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lake Charles, Louisiana

Lake Charles is the fifth largest incorporated city in the US state of Louisiana.It is the major cultural and educational center in the southwest region of the state and one of the most important in Acadiana....
. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering
Computer engineering

Computer Engineering is a discipline that combines elements of both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Computer engineers are electrical engineers that have additional training in the areas of software design and hardware-software integration....
 from Tulane University
Tulane University

Tulane University is a private university, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as a public medical college in 1834, the school grew into a comprehensive university and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in the late 19th century....
 (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and an MS from Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
.

Until the company decided to switch to PHP
PHP

PHP is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can be used in Standalone software Graphical user interface....
, his Filo Server Program, written in the C
C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language originally developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories to implement the Unix operating system....
 programming language, was the server-side scripting software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to the Yahoo! web site.

006, Filo was estimated to be worth $2.9 billion, ranking him the 240th richest person in the world.






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David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo!
Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an United States public company corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, , and provides Internet services worldwide....
 with Jerry Yang.

David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana
Moss Bluff, Louisiana

Moss Bluff is a census-designated place in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, Louisiana, United States. The population was 10,535 at the 2000 United States Census....
, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lake Charles, Louisiana

Lake Charles is the fifth largest incorporated city in the US state of Louisiana.It is the major cultural and educational center in the southwest region of the state and one of the most important in Acadiana....
. He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a BS in Computer Engineering
Computer engineering

Computer Engineering is a discipline that combines elements of both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Computer engineers are electrical engineers that have additional training in the areas of software design and hardware-software integration....
 from Tulane University
Tulane University

Tulane University is a private university, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as a public medical college in 1834, the school grew into a comprehensive university and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in the late 19th century....
 (through the Dean's Honor Scholarship) and an MS from Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
.

Until the company decided to switch to PHP
PHP

PHP is a scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. It has evolved to include a command line interface capability and can be used in Standalone software Graphical user interface....
, his Filo Server Program, written in the C
C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language originally developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories to implement the Unix operating system....
 programming language, was the server-side scripting software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to the Yahoo! web site.

Personal life

In 2006, Filo was estimated to be worth $2.9 billion, ranking him the 240th richest person in the world. As a philanthropist, in 2005 he donated $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University
Tulane University

Tulane University is a private university, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as a public medical college in 1834, the school grew into a comprehensive university and was eventually privatized under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in the late 19th century....
, for use in its .

Filo is married to photoghrapher and teacher Angela Buenning .

See also


  • Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)
  • Yahoo!
    Yahoo!

    Yahoo! Inc. is an United States public company corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, , and provides Internet services worldwide....


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