Jedidiah Yueh

Jedidah Yueh
Born New York City
Residence Menlo Park
Education Harvard University (A.B.)

Jedidah Yueh is an American tech entrepreneur. The first company he established was Avamar Technologies which sold for $156 million in 2006.[1] He is currently CEO of Delphix, a software company for managing development of mobile sites and applications, co-founded by him in 2008.[1] Delphix is valued at $956 million and ranked by TechCrunch in the top place in its leaderboard for emerging unicorns.

Early life and education

He was born in New York City to parents originally from China who left for Taiwan after the communist takeover before immigrating to the US.[1] He majored in English and psychology at Harvard.[2] During undergrad he had no plans to start a business or go into technology. He wrote a fantasy book along the lines of The Hobbit.[1]

Avamar Technologies

Yueh's plunge into tech entrepreneurship was a surprise to himself. He explained in a New York Times interview that he became "one of the little particles on the fringe of the carpet that got sucked into the vacuum" since there is "so much money in Silicon Valley to create new technology companies".[2] After learning to build Excel models he landed contract work with a company and learned about the industry it was in, leading to the idea for Avamar Technologies in 1999. He had founded the company after realizing an immense need for a product to reduce data redundancy.[1] By 2006 the company had according to industry magazine Baseline become "far and away the market leader in the space". The EMC Corporation purchased the company in that year for $165 million in an all cash transaction.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Delphix CEO Jedidiah Yueh, on building apps faster". San Jose Mercury News. January 24, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Jed Yueh of Delphix on Learning to Manage Yourself". New York Times. June 27, 2013.
  3. ↑ "EMC Buys De-Duplication Specialist Avamar". Baseline. November 1, 2006.
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