Jerry Yang is a Chinese American entrepreneur and the co-founder, former CEO (or as he called himself，the Chief Yahoo) of Yahoo! Inc. A leading force in the Internet media industry, has been instrumental in building Yahoo! into the world’s most highly trafficked Web site and one of the world’s most recognized brands.
杨致远，华裔美籍的企业家，雅虎创始人之一，也是雅虎公司的前任首席执行官(或是他自称 的雅虎酋长)。他同时也是互联网媒体领域的领军人物，帮助雅虎成为全球浏览量最大的网站且最广为人知的品牌。
Born in Taipei, Taiwan on November 6，1968，Yang moved to San Jose, California at the age of eight, with his mother and brother. His father died when Yang was two. He claimed that despite his mother being an English teacher, he only knew one English word (shoe) on his arrival. Mastering the English language in three years, he was placed into an AP English class.
杨致远1968年11月6日出生在台湾省台北市。8岁的时候便和 母亲还有弟弟一起移居到加利福尼亚州的圣何塞。父亲在他还只 有两岁的时候就去世了。他说尽管他的母亲是一位英语老师,但是 他到美国的时候只认识一个英文单词(鞋子)。3年内他就掌握了英 语，并且被分到高级英语进阶班。
Yang graduated from Sierramont Middle School, and Piedmont Hills High School, then went on to receive his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
杨致远毕业于Sierranmont和Piedomont Hills高中，之后在斯 坦佛大学获得他的电子工程理学学士和理学硕士学位，大学期间 他还是Phi Kappa Psi兄弟会的成员。
While he studied in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, he co-created in April 1994 with David Filo an Internet website consisting of a directory of other websites called “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. It was renamed “Yahoo!” (an exclamation). Yahoo became very popular, Yang and Filo realized the business potential and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. They took a leave of absence and postponed their doctoral programs indefinitely.
当他还在斯坦福大学攻读电子工程学位期间，于1994年4月同 大卫_费罗一起创建了一个名为“杰瑞全球咨讯网指南”的互联网 导航网站。之后这个网站更名为“雅虎！ ”(感叹词）。雅虎变得非常 受欢迎，杨致远和费罗意识到了其中的商业潜力便在1995年4月合 伙创立了雅虎公司。他们为此请求休学并无限期推延了攻读博士 的计划。
Yahoo! started off as a web portal with a web directory to providing an extensive range of products and services for online activities. It is now one of the leading internet brands and has the most trafficked network on the internet.
雅虎最初是作为一个带有导航信息的门户网站，向用户提供 各种在线活动的产品和信息。雅虎目前已经是互联网中的领军品 牌之一,并且也是网络浏览量最多的网站。
On November 17, 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported that Jerry Yang would step down as CEO as soon as the company found a replacement. He had been criticized by many investors, including Carl Icahn, for not increasing revenues and the Yahoo! stock price.
2008年11月17日，据华尔街日报报道雅虎一旦找到接任者，杨致远就会立刻离任雅虎首席执行官一职。他受到包括卡尔?爱康 在内的众多投资者的批评，由于雅虎的收人和股价一直没能得到 增长。
On January 13，2009, Yahoo named Silicon Valley veteran Carol Bartz as its new chief executive, effectively replacing Yang. Yang regained his former position as Chief Yahoo! and remains on Yahoo’s board of directors.
2009年1月13日，雅虎任命在硅谷有着丰富经验的卡罗 尔.巴茨为新任执行官,真正地取代了杨致远。杨致远则重新恢 复之前的雅虎酋长职位，并依旧是雅虎董事会成员。
Yang is married to Akiko Yamazaki, who was raised in Costa Rica. She graduated from Stanford University with a degree in industrial engineering. The couple met at the University of Stanford in Kyoto overseas program in 1992.
杨致远同在哥斯达黎加长大的山崎晶子结婚。她毕业于斯坦 福大学工业工程系。这对夫妻是在1992年斯坦福大学的京都留学 计划中相识的。
Yang is currently on the Board of Directors of Alibaba, the Asian Pacific Fund, Cisco and Yahoo! Japan, and is also on the Stanford University Board of Trustees.
杨致远现在还是阿里巴巴、亚太基金会、Cisco和雅虎日本的董事会成员，并且还是斯坦福大 学理事会理事。
In February 2007，Jerry Yang and his wife gave USD $75 million to Stanford University, their alma mater, the bulk of which went to building the “Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building”.
2007年2月，杨致远和他的妻子向他们的母校斯坦福大学捐赠了 7500万美元，这笔资金用于建 设“杨致远和山崎晶子环境能源楼”。
Yang was criticized by shareholders for rejecting an offer of $33 a share from Microsoft in May 2008-Microsofl subsequently walked away from the negotiations. In November 2008 the shares were valued at only $14 and Google also decided not to proceed with commercial search advertising arrangements under negotiation influenced by the concerns voiced by the US authorities regarding the effect on competition in the market. On July 29th，2009，Yahoo! and Microsoft announced a search deal to compete against Google, after the Bing search of Microsoft was successfully launched earlier in June.
杨致远因拒绝微软在2008年5月提出的以每股33美元的价格收购雅虎所有普通股的计划而饱 受股东们的批评，之后不久微软就撤销了收购计划。到2008年11月雅虎股价仅为每股14美元，并且 因美国高层对市场竞争的影响力的担忧所造成的影响,谷歌也决定终止正在商讨的同雅虎的商务 广告搜索协议。2009年7月29日，微软在6月发布必应搜索引擎获得成功后，雅虎和微软宣布签订一 项搜索协议来抗衡谷歌。