David Filo Overview

  • Investor Type
  • Angel

David Filo General Information

Description

Mr. David Filo is a Co-Founder & serves as Board Member at Skyline Foundation. Mr. Filo co-founded and served as the Chief of Yahoo at Yahoo. He co-founded the Yahoo Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with Jerry Yang and co-founded Yahoo in April 1995. He serves as a key technologist, directing the technical operations behind the company's global network of Web properties. He is credited with helping build Yahoo into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the Internet's most recognized brands. He is an Angel Investor. He holds a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Tulane University and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford's electrical engineering Ph.D. program.

Business Details

Primary Investor Type
Angel (individual)
Corporate Office
  • Palo Alto, CA
  • United States
+1 (330)

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  • Who is David Filo?

    David Filo is an angel Investor who has made 0 investments.

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    David Filo is an angel investor.

  • What does David Filo do?

    As an angel investor, David Filo invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.

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