David Filo
David Filo
David Filois an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! web site...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth20 April 1966
CountryUnited States of America
return boards proud
I am incredibly proud to return to the Yahoo board.
people
People should think about e-mail as something where they are archiving their lives.
challenge
That's been a challenge for us over the years.
microsoft money thrown worked
Microsoft has tried to do a lot of things in search... thrown a lot of money. But nothing they have done has worked at all.
problems run share values win
You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.
hack yahoo
Hack Days were initially started for Yahoo employees.
coming environmental fix humans issues necessary
Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.
yahoo
Search is essential to every service that Yahoo offers.
awareness dedicated education information promoting
Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access.
expect immediate require
What I didn't really expect getting into it was probably that it would require so much immediate attention.
years ideas purpose
Twenty years later, the core of Yahoo is still the same. We are driven by the same purpose—to be your guide around the web. You may not know how much you motivate us every day by using our products and sharing your ideas, but you do. Thank you.
jobs thinking creating
What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.
important information way
Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.
people marketing add
First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.