Tech-wizard and the co-founder of Yahoo! David Filo was born on April 20th, 1966, in Wisconsin, USA.
A promising student, Filo had since childhood, been interested in computers and proved his technical skills. He earned a BS in computer engineering at the Tulane University through the Dean’s Honour Scholarship, and went on to complete an MS at Stanford University. He also enrolled for the doctoral programme in the university during which he created Yahoo! with the help of fellow researcher Jerry Yang.
The company which began as ‘Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web’ consisted of a directory to other websites. It then became one of the strongest and popular ventures in the field of information technology, following which the founders started receiving offers from other multinational companies like Netscape.
Filo, known to be a hard worker, has played an instrumental role in taking Yahoo! to the international arena. The Filo Server Program that was written in the C programming language was used in the earliest versions of Yahoo!