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David Filo

(1966) Entrepreneur

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David Filo is an entrepreneur.

Quick Facts About David Filo

Born: April 20, 1966
Profession: Entrepreneur

About David Filo

[Wikidata] American businessman... | [Wikipedia] David Robert Filo is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early ver

Quotes by David Filo

Online advertising is display plus search.

Advertising

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Hire passionate employees.

Employees

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First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no…

Access

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The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don't cause major problems. However, we are certainly…

Business

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I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.

Am

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Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to…

Form

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Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the…

Because

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Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.

Cybersecurity

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What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating…

Able

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Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.

Essential

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People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives.

About

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Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has…

Done

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Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purpose—to be your guide around…

Core

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The Internet is not nearly as fail-safe as the phone system.

Internet

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We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we…

April

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Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.

Continue

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Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it…

Every day

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We're not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.

Commitment

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Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access.

Access

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