Jerry Yang

Source of wealth: Yahoo

57 years male Technology 🇺🇸 US

Net Worth

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The scale of their wealth

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Health

The price of life

Let's compare Jerry Yang's fortune with the healthcare spending of a massive country

Jerry Yang could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo, with a population of over 105,800,000 people, for approximately 1.4 years.

But even if we compare their fortune with that of a rich country

On the other end, Jerry Yang could cover the healthcare spending of Luxembourg, considered the most heavily funded healthcare system in the world, for 0.6 years.

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Education

Buying the future

Let's also compare their fortune with education spending, first with a poor country

Jerry Yang could cover the total cost of Nigeria's education system, the most populous country in Africa with over 243,000,000 inhabitants, for 0.9 years.

And yes, we can also compare it with a rich country

But they couldn't just cover the cost of a poor country; Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, and Jerry Yang could pay for it entirely for 1.2 years.

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Research

The monopoly on progress

Coming full circle, we think it's also interesting to add another gigantic country

Jerry Yang could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with over 260,000,000 inhabitants, for 5.2 years.

And of course, the country that invests the most per capita worldwide

But even if we compare the total wealth of Jerry Yang with Israel, the country that invests the most per capita in research in the world, they could cover the total cost of the system for 0.1 years.

While billions of people struggle to access basic healthcare, education, and research, a single individual could fund entire national systems for centuries.

Gold

Everyday luxuries

Jerry Yang's fortune is equivalent to 21 tons of gold. It's hard to process, since we don't usually keep a handful of gold bars in our piggy banks.

A standard gold ring usually weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18 karats.

Based on today's gold price (excluding the jeweler's commission, shipping, or anything else), that ring would be worth $546.86.

Jerry Yang could buy 5,663,778 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and way too many gifts!!

And if you're struggling to visualize that many rings, it would take 1 trucks to transport them. Although Jerry Yang will almost certainly have enough money left over to pay for the gas.

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Biography

Yang cofounded web portal Yahoo in 1995 after dropping out of a Ph.D. program in electrical engineering at Stanford.

Yang served as Yahoo's CEO from 2007 to 2009; he left Yahoo's board in 2012.

In 2017, he and his wife, Akiko Yamazaki, pledged $25 million to San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, the largest gift in the museum's history.

In 2016, Yahoo completed the sale of its core operating business to Verizon for $5 billion in cash.

Yang founded AME Cloud Ventures, which bets on data-driven startups. Through his fund and personally, Yang has made several impact-minded investments.

Yang began a two-year term as chair of the board of trustees at Stanford, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees, in July 2021.