Michael Yang
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| Michael Yang | |
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| Born | August 31, 1961 |
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| Occupation | entrepreneur |
| Children | 2 |
| Website http://www.michaelyang.com/ |
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Michael Yang (Korean: 양민정, Hanja: 梁民正, born August 31, 1961) is a Korean-American Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, California. He was born in Seoul in South Korea and moved to San Jose in California on April 2, 1976 with his family when he was 14 years old. After attending UC Berkeley and Columbia University graduate school, Michael worked for Xerox, Intergraph, Televideo Samsung and Jazz Multimedia before starting his first venture capital backed startup company mySimon with Yeogirl Yun in April of 1998. Michael helped to grow the company to become the largest online price comparison shopping site. As the leading online comparison shopping service, mySimon.com raised $30 million in venture capital investments and was successfully acquired by CNET media holding company for $700 million in February, 2000. He then started Become.com the next generation online shopping search engine start-up in January of 2004 and raised $12 million in capital. Michael's success with mySimon and Become.com has been extensively written about in publications such as Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, and MIT Technology Review magazine.
