Jerry Yang rode out the late 1990s the same as every other tech king brought up in Silicon Valley’s adolescence: shrewdly building the web with millions in venture capital.
As the internet took off, Yang’s fledgling search engine was freshly minted with $100 million from Masayoshi “Masa” Son. Yang quickly became Silicon Valley’s poster child, building one of the biggest internet companies the world had ever seen — Yahoo — worth $125 billion at its height.
