Jerry Yang

Yang was born Yang Chih-Yuan in Taipei, Taiwan, on November 6, 1968. His mother was a professor of English and drama and his father died when he was two. Yang has a younger brother, Chih-Kong Ken Yang.Parmy Olson for Forbes.On September 30, 2014. [https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/09/30/how-jerry-yang-made-the-most-lucrative-bet-in-tech-history/ Finding Alibaba: How Jerry Yang Made The Most Lucrative Bet In Silicon Valley History]{{cite magazine|last1=Pickert|first1=Kate|title=Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang|url=http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1860424,00.html|magazine=Time|date=November 19, 2008}} In 1978, his mother moved the family to San Jose, California, where his grandmother and extended family took care of the boys while his mother taught English to other immigrants.{{Cite web |date=January 15, 2021 |title=Jerry Yang elected chair of Stanford University Board of Trustees |url=https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2021/01/jerry-yang-elected-chair-stanford-university-board-trustees |access-date=October 8, 2024 |website=Stanford News}}{{Cite magazine |last=Pickert |first=Kate |date=November 19, 2008 |orig-date=November 19, 2008 |title=Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang |url=https://time.com/archive/6904897/yahoo-ceo-jerry-yang/ |url-status=live |access-date=October 8, 2024 |magazine=TIME |language=en}} After moving to the US, Yang took the American name Jerry; his mother, Lily; and his younger brother, Ken.{{cite book|last1=Sherman|first1=Josepha|title=Jerry Yang and David Filo : chief yahoos of Yahoo!|date=2001|publisher=Twenty-First Century Books|location=Brookfield, Conn.|isbn=9780761319610|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/jerryyangdavidfi00sher}} He says that he only knew one English word, "shoe", when he came to America, but became fluent in English in about three years.{{cite news | url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/06/275253/index.htm | first=Brent | last=Schlender | title=How A Virtuoso Plays The Web | work=Fortune | date=March 6, 2000 | access-date=November 8, 2008 }}

During his time at San Jose, Yang attended Ruskin Elementary School, Sierramont Middle, and Piedmont Hills High School. He graduated from Piedmont Hills High School and went on to earn both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from Stanford University in four years. He met David Filo at Stanford in 1989, and the two went to Japan in 1992 for a six-month exchange program, where he met his future wife, Akiko Yamazaki, also participating in the exchange program.

Yang founded Yahoo! in 1994 and was CEO from 2007 to 2009. He left Yahoo! in 2012. He founded a venture capital firm called AME Cloud Ventures and, as of 2015, is on several corporate boards. According to Rob Solomon, a venture capitalist at Accel Partners, Yang was "a great founder, evangelist, strategist and mentor," having "created the blueprint for what is possible on the Internet."{{cite web|last1=Solomon|first1=Rob|title=Yahoo Was the GE of the Internet|url=http://recode.net/2015/01/26/yahoo-was-the-ge-of-the-internet/|website=recode.com|date=January 26, 2015|publisher=Recode|access-date=January 26, 2015}}

While studying at Stanford in 1994, Yang and David Filo co-created an Internet website called "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web," which consisted of a directory of other websites. As it grew in popularity they renamed it "Yahoo! Inc." Yahoo! received around 100,000 unique visitors by the fall of 1994. In April 1995, Yahoo! received a $2 million investment from Sequoia Capital, Tim Koogle was hired as CEO, and Yang and Filo were each appointed "Chief Yahoo." Yahoo! received a second round of funding in the Fall of 1995 from Reuters and Softbank. It went public in April 1996 with 49 employees.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070918225007/http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/history.cfm Yahoo! Inc. – Company History]. yhoo.client.shareholder.comHal Plotkin for Metro. April 11, 1996 [http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/04.11.96/yahoo-9615.html MetroActive: A Couple of Yahoos] In 1999, Yang was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=541 |title=1999 Young Innovators Under 35: Jerry Yang, 29 |magazine=Technology Review | year=1999 | access-date=August 14, 2011}} Terry Semel, who replaced Tim Koogle as CEO after the dot-com bubble crash, was CEO until 2007 when the rise of Google led the board to fire him and appoint Yang as interim CEO.

Yang met Alibaba founder Jack Ma in 1997 during Yang's first trip to China. Ma, a government-employed tour guide and former English teacher, gave Yang a tour of the Great Wall of China. The two hit it off and discussed the growth of the Web. Ma created Alibaba several months later. A 1997 photo of Yang and Ma at the Great Wall still hangs on the wall in Alibaba's Hangzhou office.

In 2005, under Yang's direction but before he took over as CEO in 2007, Yahoo! purchased a 40% stake in Alibaba for $1 billion plus the assets of Yahoo! China, valued at $700 million. In 2012, Yahoo! sold a portion of its stake in Alibaba for $7.6 billion.{{cite news|last1=Helft|first1=Miguel|title=Jerry Yang: The most successful American investor in China?|url=http://fortune.com/2014/09/18/jerry-yang-the-most-successful-american-investor-in-china/|access-date=January 5, 2015|work=Fortune|publisher=Time, Inc.|date=September 18, 2014}} The company made an additional $9.4 billion in Alibaba's 2014 IPO.{{cite news|last1=Novellino|first1=Teresa|title=Inside Jerry Yang's wild bet on Alibaba and Jack Ma|url=http://upstart.bizjournals.com/entrepreneurs/hot-shots/2014/10/01/inside-jerry-yang-s-wild-bet-on-alibaba-jack-ma.html?page=all|access-date=January 5, 2015|work=Upstart Business Journal|publisher=American City Business Journals.|date=October 1, 2014}} Eric Jackson, the founder of hedge fund Ironfire Capital, called Yahoo!'s investment in Alibaba "the best investment an American company has ever made in China," and stated, "Jerry deserves enormous credit for that."

In the fall 2005, a month after the Alibaba investment, news broke that Yahoo! had cooperated with Chinese authorities in the arrest of Chinese journalist Shi Tao in November 2004.Joseph Kahn for The New York Times. September 8, 2005 [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/technology/08yahoo.html?_r=0 Yahoo Role Documented in Chinese Trial] Shi had used a Yahoo email address to anonymously notify a pro-democracy website in the US that the Chinese government had ordered the Chinese media not to cover the fifteenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 on June 4. Yahoo! provided the Chinese security agencies with the IP addresses of the senders, the recipients and the time of the message. Shi was subsequently convicted for "divulging state secrets abroad."

Yang justified the action, stating: "To be doing business in China or anywhere else in the world, we have to comply with local law[s]." Yang and Yahoo! were heavily criticized, and Reporters Without Borders called Yahoo! "a Chinese police informant."Reporters Without Borders. September 6, 2005 [https://web.archive.org/web/20051003233736/http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=14884 Information supplied by Yahoo ! helped journalist Shi Tao get 10 years in prison].Editors of The Washington Post. September 18, 2005 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/17/AR2005091701135.html Editorial: Obeying Orders]

In April 2007, Wang Xiaoning and other journalists brought a civil suit against Yahoo! for allegedly aiding and abetting the Chinese government which, it was claimed, resulted in torture that included beatings and imprisonment.Miguel Helft for The New York Times April 19, 2007 [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/technology/19yahoo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Chinese Political Prisoner Sues in U.S. Court, Saying Yahoo Helped Identify Dissidents]

In early November 2007, Yang faced questions from a Congressional committee with respect to Yahoo!'s role in the arrests of Tao and other journalists in China. During the hearings he apologized to Tao's mother, who was also at the hearing.[https://archive.today/20120904230143/http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9798390-7.html Yahoo summoned to Washington over Chinese arrests], c/net news blog, October 16, 2007{{cite news|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7392987?nclick_check=1|title=Lawmaker scolds Yahoo: 'Morally you are pygmies'|newspaper=The Mercury News|date=November 7, 2007|access-date=November 14, 2007|first=John|last=Boudreau}}Associated Press in The New York Times. November 7, 2007 [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/technology/07yahoo.html?_r=0 Yahoo Criticized in Case of Jailed Dissident]

A week later, Yahoo! agreed to settle with the affected Chinese dissidents, paying them undisclosed compensation. Yang stated, "After meeting with the families, it was clear to me what we had to do to make this right for them, for Yahoo, and for the future."Corey Boles and Scott Morrison for The Wall Street Journal. November 14, 2007 [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119497419315091540 Yahoo Settles Suit Over Jailed Chinese Dissidents] That week, Yang established the Yahoo! Human Rights Fund, a fund to provide "humanitarian and legal support" to online dissidents.{{cite web | url=http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/YHOO/0x0x185268/e4ed71a5-8c6a-41eb-b12a-53be1afb9e17/YHOO_News_2007_11_13_General.pdf | title=Press Release: Yahoo! Inc Reaches Settlement On Lawsuit Works To Establish Human Rights Fund | date=November 13, 2007 | publisher=Yahoo! | access-date=January 11, 2015 | archive-date=January 11, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111070715/http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/YHOO/0x0x185268/e4ed71a5-8c6a-41eb-b12a-53be1afb9e17/YHOO_News_2007_11_13_General.pdf | url-status=dead }}

In February 2008, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that she raised issues about jailed Chinese journalists with her Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi; she cited a letter from Jerry Yang requesting her assistance in freeing the jailed dissidents.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/technology/27iht-yahoo.4.10491518.html| title=Rice presses China on jailed dissidents | newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 27, 2007}} Late in 2008, the Laogai Museum opened; the museum was run by noted Chinese dissident Harry Wu and showcased China's laogai penal system. It was funded by the Yahoo! Human Rights Fund.{{cite news | url=https://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2008/11/12/yahoo-sponsored-chinese-human-rights-museum-opens-in-washington/ | newspaper=The Wall Street Journal | access-date=December 12, 2008 | last=Fowler | first=Geoffrey A | date=November 12, 2008 | title=Yahoo-Sponsored Chinese Human Rights Museum Opens in Washington}}

On September 2, 2020, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Chinese activist Ning Xianhua against past Yahoo! executives, including Yang and Semel. The lawsuit was filed in the US District Court in San Jose, California. It alleges that Yahoo! provided Xianhua's private emails to the Chinese government in exchange for commercial access to more Chinese internet users.{{cite news |last1=Ranjha |first1=Ikrama Majeed |title=Lawsuit alleges Yahoo let Chinese authorities access private emails |url=https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/lawsuit-alleges-yahoo-let-chinese-authorities-access-private-emails-60192101 |access-date=March 7, 2021 |work=S&P Global |date=September 2, 2020 |language=en-us}}

In February 2008, Microsoft made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion; at the time Yahoo! was still struggling to catch up to Google, while Microsoft was still seeking an internet search strategy.{{cite news|title=Yahoo weighs up options|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6445d618-d293-11dc-8636-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1|newspaper=Financial Times|date=February 3, 2008}} The offer was a 62% premium to Yahoo!'s market value at the time. The negotiations were difficult, as Yang had no desire to sell Yahoo! and would not make a counter offer.{{cite news|title=Microsoft's Failed Yahoo Bid Risks Online Growth|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/technology/05soft.html?_r=4&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=May 6, 2008 | first=Steve | last=Lohr | date=May 5, 2008}} Once the negotiations ended in failure in May 2008, Yahoo!'s stock price plunged. Yang and board chairman Roy Bostock were strongly criticized by investors for their handling of negotiations, which later led to several shareholder lawsuits and a proxy fight led by Carl Icahn, which was settled in July 2008.Rob Hof for Bloomberg BusinessWeek TechBeat July 21, 2008 [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-07-20/yahoo-settles-proxy-fight-with-icahn-whats-next Yahoo Settles Proxy Fight With Icahn; What's Next?]

Yang's response to the Microsoft takeover was to make a commercial search advertising arrangement with Google but they ended negotiation after U.S. authorities voiced concerns regarding the effect on competition in the market.

On November 17, 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported Yang would step down as CEO as soon as the company found a replacement.[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122697024336935679 Yang to Step Down as Yahoo CEO], The Wall Street Journal, November 18, 2008 He was CEO until 2009, when Yahoo! named Carol Bartz as CEO.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7827518.stm Yahoo names new chief executive], BBC News, January 14, 2009 He regained his former position as "Chief Yahoo" and remained on Yahoo's board of directors.{{cite news|url=http://www.thestreet.com/story/10448487/yahoo-to-replace-yang-as-ceo.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101212011401/http://www.thestreet.com/story/10448487/yahoo-to-replace-yang-as-ceo.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 12, 2010 |title=Yahoo! to Replace Yang as CEO |author=Michael Liedtke |publisher=TheStreet.com |date=November 18, 2008 |access-date=September 11, 2009 }}

In January 2012, Yahoo! announced that Yang was leaving the company and would be resigning from the board and all other positions at the company. The company also announced his resignation from the boards of Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba Corp.[http://www.marketwatch.com/story/yahoo-announces-resignation-of-jerry-yang-2012-01-17 Yahoo announces resignation of Jerry Yang], Marketwatch News, January 17, 2012

After leaving Yahoo! he became a mentor to technology startups and an investor through his firm, AME Cloud Ventures.[http://allthingsd.com/20130319/jerry-yang-is-back-and-investing-more-than-ever/ "Jerry Yang Is Back (And Investing More Than Ever),"] Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2013[http://mashable.com/2013/03/05/jerry-yang-startups/ "Jerry Yang's Next Act: Startup Investor and Mentor,"] Mashable, March 5, 2013 AME (pronounced "ah-meh") invests primarily in companies that work with data and has provided funding to more than 50 startups, including Tango, Evernote, Wattpad,{{Cite web|last=Olson|first=Parmy|title=Meet The Billionaire Who Defied Amazon And Built Wish, The World's Most-Downloaded E-Commerce App|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2019/03/13/meet-the-billionaire-who-defied-amazon-and-built-wish-the-worlds-most-downloaded-e-commerce-app/|access-date=August 4, 2021|website=Forbes|language=en}} Wish, Zoom and Vectra Networks Inc., and Chinese travel site Shijiebang. "Ame" means "rain" in Japanese, a nod to Yang's interest in cloud computing.

• Yahoo! (1995–2012)
• Cisco (2000–2012)John Chambers for Cisco Blogs. September 19, 2012 [http://blogs.cisco.com/news/jerry-yang-to-retire-from-ciscos-board Jerry Yang to Retire from Cisco's Board] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924040534/http://blogs.cisco.com/news/jerry-yang-to-retire-from-ciscos-board/ |date=September 24, 2012 }}
• Alibaba Group (2006–2012; 2014– )
• Stanford University Chair of Board of Trustees (2005–2015; 2017– ){{cite news|last1=Deruy|first1=Emily|title=Stanford adds Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang to its board of trustees|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/11/stanford-adds-yahoo-co-founder-jerry-yang-to-its-board-of-trustees/|access-date=November 29, 2017|work=The Mercury News|date=August 11, 2017}}{{Cite web|last=University|first=Stanford|date=January 15, 2021|title=Jerry Yang elected chair of Stanford University Board of Trustees|url=https://news.stanford.edu/report/2021/01/15/jerry-yang-elected-chair-stanford-university-board-trustees/|access-date=October 14, 2021|website=Stanford Report|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=January 22, 2021|title=Jerry Yang succeeds Jeff Raikes as chair of the Stanford Board of Trustees|url=https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/01/21/jerry-yang-succeeds-jeff-raikes-as-chair-of-the-stanford-board-of-trustees/|access-date=October 14, 2021|website=The Stanford Daily}}
• Workday, Inc. (2013– )
• Curbside (2013–2018){{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/10/06/backed-by-9-5-million-curbside-launches-a-mobile-shopping-app-for-same-day-pickup-not-delivery/|title=Backed By $9.5 Million, Curbside Launches A Mobile Shopping App For Same-Day Pickup, Not Delivery|last=Perez|first=Sarah|website=TechCrunch|date=October 6, 2014 |access-date=May 24, 2017}}
• Lenovo Group Limited (2013– )Brian Womack for Bloomberg News September 11, 2014 [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-11/yahoo-s-yang-is-back-playing-alibaba-board-power-broker.html Yahoo's Yang Is Back Playing Alibaba-Board Power Broker]{{Cite web|title=Board of Directors {{!}} Lenovo|url=https://investor.lenovo.com/en/cg/directors.php|access-date=August 4, 2021|website=investor.lenovo.com}}
• NewsBreak (advisor) (2015–){{cite news|last1=Liao |first1=Rita |title=Meet News Break, the news app trending in America founded by a Chinese media veteran |url=https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/meet-news-break-the-news-app-trending-in-america-founded-by-a-chinese-media-veteran/ |access-date=March 7, 2021 |work=TechCrunch |date=May 28, 2020}}{{cite web|last1=Ni |first1=Alan |title=News Break Announces $115m in Series C Funding led by Francisco Partners |url=https://www.franciscopartners.com/media/news-break-announces-115m-in-series-c-funding-led-by-francisco-partners |website=Francisco Partners |date=January 7, 2021 |access-date=June 29, 2023}}

Yang is married to Japan-born Akiko Yamazaki, who was raised in Costa Rica. They met in 1992 during a 6-month Stanford exchange program. Yamazaki graduated from Stanford University with a degree in industrial engineering and is a director with the Wildlife Conservation Network.Stanford University Press Release. February 15, 2007 [http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2007/pr-donors-022107.html Alumni couple Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo!, and Akiko Yamazaki pledge $75 million to alma mater] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402112357/http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2007/pr-donors-022107.html |date=April 2, 2015 }} Yang currently lives in Los Altos Hills, California.[https://www.forbes.com/profile/jerry-yang Profile of Jerry Yang]. Forbes.com (March 29, 2011). Retrieved on January 9, 2012.

In February 2007, Yang and his wife gave $75 million to Stanford University, their alma mater, $50 million of which went to building the "Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building", a multi-disciplinary research, teaching and lab building designed with sustainable architecture principles.Stanford Report, March 3, 2008 [http://news.stanford.edu/news/2008/march5/y2e2-intro-030508.html Y2E2: New building sets sustainability standards for Stanford]

In late 2012 and early 2013, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco exhibited selections from the Chinese calligraphy collection belonging to Yang and his wife. He began the collection in the late 1990s; it contains about 250 pieces.{{cite news|last1=Seno|first1=Alexandra A.|title=Worthy Characters|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444024204578046400919949688|access-date=January 5, 2015|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=October 12, 2012}} These selections also appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 2014 exhibition "Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy."{{cite news|last1=Rosenberg|first1=Karen|title=A Calligraphic Answer to 'I Like This'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/arts/design/out-of-character-a-show-of-chinese-scrolls-at-the-met.html|access-date=January 5, 2015|work=The New York Times|date=June 19, 2014}}

In September 2017, Yang and Yamazaki pledged $25 million to the Asian Art Museum, the largest donation in the museum's history.{{cite news|last1=Finkel|first1=Jori|title=Yahoo Co-Founder Gives $25 Million to San Francisco's Asian Art Museum|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/arts/design/asian-art-museum-jerry-yang-yahoo.html|access-date=November 29, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=September 26, 2017}}

A new pavilion at the museum, funded by Yang and Yamazaki's donation and named in their honor, opened in 2020.{{cite news |last1=Zinko |first1=Carolyne |title=San Francisco's Asian Art Museum Leaps Into the Future |url=https://mlsiliconvalley.com/san-franciscos-asian-art-museum |access-date=March 7, 2021 |work=Modern Luxury Silicon Valley |date=April 16, 2020 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Transformed Asian Art Museum Unveils New Pavilion with teamLab: Continuity |url=https://about.asianart.org/press/transformed-asian-art-museum-unveils-new-pavilion-with-teamlab-continuity/ |access-date=March 7, 2021 |work=Asian Art Museum |date=March 24, 2020}}

Yang and Yamazaki loaned more than 50 Chinese ink paintings to Stanford's Cantor Arts Center in summer 2018 for its "Ink Worlds" exhibition.{{cite news |last1=Thornton |first1=Sarah |title=Philanthropists Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Are Transforming Art in the Bay |url=https://www.culturedmag.com/akiko-yamazaki-and-jerry-yang/ |access-date=March 7, 2021 |work=Cultured Magazine |date=December 15, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Myrow |first1=Rachael |title=Energy in the Brush: Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings at Cantor |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/13832754/energy-in-the-brush-contemporary-chinese-ink-paintings-at-cantor |access-date=March 21, 2021 |work=KQED |date=May 19, 2018 |language=en-us}}

Yang was featured in Asian Americans, a PBS documentary series on Asian American history, in 2020.{{cite news |last1=Morona |first1=Joey |title=PBS docuseries 'Asian Americans' offers deep-dive into history, impact of fastest growing minority group in U.S. |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2020/05/pbs-docuseries-asian-americans-offers-deep-dive-into-history-impact-of-fastest-growing-minority-group-in-us.html |access-date=March 7, 2021 |work=Cleveland.com |date=May 5, 2020 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Gonzalves |first1=Theodore |title=How a New Show Tears Down the Myths of Asian American History |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/renee-tajima-pena-many-complexities-embedded-the-pbs-show-asian-americans-180974935/ |access-date=March 10, 2021 |work=Smithsonian Magazine |date=May 26, 2020 |language=en}}

In 2021, he was among the co-founders of The Asian American Foundation,{{cite news|last1=Nguyen|first1=Thy|date=May 5, 2021|title=Nets' Joe Tsai, Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang and More Launch $250 Million Initiative to Fight Hate|work=Yahoo|url=https://news.yahoo.com/nets-joe-tsai-yahoo-founder-040907039.html|access-date=May 11, 2021}} a $250 million initiative to address racism against Asian Americans{{cite news|last1=Sorkin|first1=Andrew Ross|last2=Lee|first2=Edmund|date=May 3, 2021|title=Asian-American Business Leaders Fund Effort to Fight Discrimination|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/business/dealbook/asian-american-donation-philanthropy.html|access-date=May 11, 2021}} and provide services to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Yang sits on the board of the foundation, described by its organizers as the largest-ever philanthropic effort to support the AAPI community.{{cite news|last1=Ax|first1=Joseph|date=May 3, 2021|title=Asian-American business leaders launch $250M effort to fight hate|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-foundation-launches-with-125-mln-business-leaders-combat-anti-asian-hate-2021-05-03/|access-date=May 11, 2021}}

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