David Filo

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David Filo

Yahoo! co-founder David Filo
Born 1966
Wisconsin, US
Occupation Co-founder and Chief Yahoo!, Yahoo! Inc.
Salary $40,000,000[citation needed]
Net worth $2.9 billion USD (2006)
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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 an MS from Stanford University.

Until the company decided to switch to PHP, his Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side scripting software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to the Yahoo! web site.

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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.

Filo is currently married to his wife, Linda. They maintain homes in Palo Alto and Redwood City.

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