# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-yang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:25:17.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-yang"
name: "Jerry Yang"
slug: "jerry-yang"
description: "Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang is a Taiwanese-born American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures. As of May 2025, Yang has a net worth of $3.1 billion."
tagline: "Founder of Yahoo!"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_yang_2010(4555102908).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1968-11-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.01
  momentum:             0.4811499397486658
  historical:           22.70503866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 204
platforms:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2243216"
    title: "Jerry Yang"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump