How come the founders of Yahoo is not the top 10 richest men in Forbes.com?
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Fame and fortune don't always go hand-in-hand.  In this case, Yahoo's founders don't have that big a portion of the company.  Maybe they gave it away early on and wanted to spend some.  They also had to go through the entire dot com bust a few years ago so their stock isn't as high.\n\nGoogle had their IPO recently and they're trading at a higher multiple for various reasons.\n\nMost people don't know Warren Buffett, yet he's the 2nd richest in the world.
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Yahoo is a publicly traded company (on the stock market).  They have a fiduciary duty to show a return on equity for their shareholders.  All advertising can be broken down simply into eyeballs. The more eyeballs, the more money, advertisers would be willing to pay for spots reaching the eyeballs.\nAs I type this, there are no advertisements on the page, YET.  Believe me, at some future point, Yahoo will be selling advertisements on the side of these answer blogs to potential clients.  Yahoo's sales presentation will include the number of users, demographic info. on the users (compiled from our registrations), and time spent reading and answering these questions.  It'll result in another online revenue stream for the company. In the corporate world, it is almost always about the money.
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Google places things at the top of the list based on other sites linking to it.  If there many other sites which spoke about the organization and linked to it, then Google would move it upwards on the listing.
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The website yahoo.com was founded by \nDavid Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1994.\nPresent Chairman, CEO, Director is Terry Samel.\n\nHope i have addressed to ur Q.
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Yahoo! was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. \n\nSo, that would make them approximately 11 years old.
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Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (Traditional Chinese: 楊致遠; Pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born November 6, 1968) is the Taiwanese American co-founder of Yahoo! Inc. He is one of two Chief Yahoo!s, board director and a former executive of the company. His net worth in 2005 was US$2.6 billion.\n\nBorn in Taipei, Taiwan, Yang moved to San Jose, California when aged ten, with his single mother (Lily) and younger brother (Ken). His father had died when Yang was two. He claimed that despite his mother being an English teacher, he only knew one English word (shoe) on his arrival. Mastering the English language in only three years, he was soon placed into an AP English class.\n\nYang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. Yang was recently named to the Stanford Board of Trustees. He co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. Yang married Akiko Yamazaki, a Japanese American raised in Costa Rica. She is an anthropologist.\n\nIn 2005, Yahoo! was criticized for identifying Chinese dissident journalist Shi Tao to Chinese authorities, resulting in his receiving a ten year jail sentence. Yang commented that "To be doing business in China, or anywhere else in the world, we have to comply with local law." Whether Yahoo! was legally obliged to reveal the information is a matter of dispute.
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Could be. Yahoo was formed for insider trading on this potentiality. RICO statute might apply.
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They would like you to pay for their premium account, but still if you get just the free account, they get paid everytime you click an ad on their webpage, and just helping their member list grow, puts a bigger price on their advertisement space.  Free or pay, its a win/win for yahoo.
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Richest tends to be David Geffin, a movie producer, who is to be worth 4.6 Billion (He's part of Dreamworks and Geffen records)\n\nA problem is Steve Jobs, He is worth 4.9 Billion, but most of his money comes from Apple, although he is connected to Pixar\n\nActor wise is still Tom Cruise
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Media Relations Home - Info Center Home  \nThe History of Yahoo! - How It All Started...\nYahoo! began as a student hobby and evolved into a global brand that has changed the way people communicate with each other, find and access information and purchase things. The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations. Eventually, Jerry and David's lists became too long and unwieldy, and they broke them out into categories. When the categories became too full, they developed subcategories ... and the core concept behind Yahoo! was born. \n\nThe Web site started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo! is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo! itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki" - both named after legendary sumo wrestlers. \n\nJerry and David soon found they were not alone in wanting a single place to find useful Web sites. Before long, hundreds of people were accessing their guide from well beyond the Stanford trailer. Word spread from friends to what quickly became a significant, loyal audience throughout the closely-knit Internet community. Yahoo! celebrated its first million-hit day in the fall of 1994, translating to almost 100 thousand unique visitors. \n\nDue to the torrent of traffic and enthusiastic reception Yahoo! was receiving, the founders knew they had a potential business on their hands. In March 1995, the pair incorporated the business and met with dozens of Silicon Valley venture capitalists. They eventually came across Sequoia Capital, the well-regarded firm whose most successful investments included Apple Computer, Atari, Oracle and Cisco Systems. They agreed to fund Yahoo! in April 1995 with an initial investment of nearly $2 million. \n\nRealizing their new company had the potential to grow quickly, Jerry and David began to shop for a management team. They hired Tim Koogle, a veteran of Motorola and an alumnus of the Stanford engineering department, as chief executive officer and Jeffrey Mallett, founder of Novell's WordPerfect consumer division, as chief operating officer. They secured a second round of funding in Fall 1995 from investors Reuters Ltd. and Softbank. Yahoo! launched a highly-successful IPO in April 1996 with a total of 49 employees. \n\nToday, Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 345 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 25 World properties. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States. \n \n\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Yahoo employees don’t take it serious enough.  They discriminately decide what content stays and what doesn’t.  Although they have a list of “values” they don’t like, they don’t pay any attention to those values pertaining to themselves.   For instance one value they don’t like is for people to be “too big for their britches”.  If a user tries to find out information from them, they close the door of communication.  Which is under that same list of values they don’t like; “closed doors”.  They tell people it’s impossible to retrieve information from a pulled 360, but under that same list of values they don’t like is the word “impossible”.\n\nI’m not sure what the average age range of the Yahoo patrol is, but they don’t seem to be very mature.  Not only that, but if you post something which steps on their toes, they feel “you’re being “too big for your britches” and attempt to lower you back down a few notches.  They’re doing this to me at this moment.  I understand they have to maintain control of the forum, but appear to allow their personal feelings to get in the way doing an impartial job of monitoring the board.\n\nThis is why Google is seen on national television ads for companies like Pontiac and Yahoo is not.  They’re losing ground to services like Ask.com and Alloftheweb.com.  Google quickly put Yahoo in second place by realizing playing games by their employees was counter productive for their company and stock holders. \n\nYahoo is allowing nothing but blatant abuse to remain on the board to punish me for challenging their authority of questioning their policies. Yahoo doesn’t like “cogs in the wheel”.  In doing so they’re showing their “arrogance” which is another value they don’t like.  I’ve decide the list must only pertain to users and not to them, except when they get “a stick in the eye” which is also on the list.\n\nYahoo is not responsible for content posted, but a user can get sued for libel or slander and through a subpoena, Yahoo can be compelled to release user information.\n\nWhen a user violates their terms of service, I understand why the user is either banned or the post is pulled.  I never call people names or personally attack them make threats and I try to stick to answering the question.  Out of 314 answers you won’t see a single violation of TOS.   \n\nYahoo employees are too big for their britches and need to get of their “high horses” which is another value they don’t like.  New users come here under the impression this is a viable serious resource for information, but if they hang around here long enough, they learn other wise.\n\nCheck out the abuse and ask yourself why yours was pulled and this was not?  It's toward the bottom of the page.
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No, Bill gates is the richest person.
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maybe because they are a corporation and as such need to satisfy the najority of their users. as such, they must make business decisions.\n\n\nbut that is just a guess\n\n\nif there is a big problem with yahoo, the best thing to do is create a group, contact the media and explain why yahoo doesn t got it right. it is the fastest way to make a corporation cater to a minority of users
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I don't think the Yahoo stock is going to crash. Its reputation, strong financial competences and great experience in the new economy are the most relevant aspects in evaluating Yahoo as an investing option. The opinion of non-experts isn't so important.
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You get what you pay for..... what kind of a CEO do you think that you will get from Yahoo Q & A?\n\nIf you want your organization to be run into the ground, anyone can do it.\n\nThere are companies that do this sort of "head hunting", break out your assest, you gonna pay!
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Maybe this might help:\nhttp://www.forbes.com/lists/
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You need a billion dollar net worth to qualify for forbes list. He's a million dollar man, not a billion.