David Filo

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David Filo
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Yahoo! co-founder David Filo
Born1966
Wisconsin, US
OccupationCo-founder and Chief Yahoo!, Yahoo! Inc.
Salary$40,000,000
Net worthImage:Green Arrow Up.svg $2.9 billion USD (2006)
Websitehttp://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/management.cfm

David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is an American businessman and 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, written in C, would provide Filo Server Pages that brokered requests from the Yahoo! home page.

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, for use in its School of Engineering.

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