Michael Yang

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Michael Yang
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Children	4
Website
http://www.michaelyang.com/

Michael Yang
Hangul	양민정
Hanja	梁民正

Revised Romanization	Yang Minjeong
McCune–Reischauer	Yang Minjǒng

Michael Yang is a Korean American technology entrepreneur. He was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to San Jose, California on April 2, 1976 with his family when he was 14 years old.^{[citation needed]}

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 1998.^{[citation needed]} mySimon was acquired by CNET in 2000 for $700 million during the Internet boom.

He then started Become.com in January 2004 and raised $37 million in capital from TPG, Transcosmos, EFF and Ron Conway.^{[citation needed]}

Michael has served as member of the IT Advisory Council for President George W. Bush in 2001 and as an advisory board member of Creative Economy Leader advisory group for President Park Geun-hye of South Korea in 2013.

Michael's story has been written about in publications such as Businessweek, MIT Technology Review, and Christianity Today magazines.^{[citation needed]}

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Persondata
Name	Yang, Michael
Alternative names	Yang, Michael Minjeong
Short description	Korean American Entrepreneur
Date of birth
Place of birth	Seoul, Korea
Date of death
Place of death

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