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David Filo

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David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate 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! website. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). David Filo is the 638th most popular businessperson (up from 670th in 2024), the 10,074th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,862nd in 2019) and the 222nd most popular American Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, David Filo ranks 638 out of 847. Before him are Oleg Tinkov, Erik Prince, Joanna Hoffman, Sam Altman, Benito Archundia, and Jerry Sanders. After him are Jerry Jones, Li Shufu, Niklas Zennström, Ravil Maganov, Abigail Johnson, and Benjamin Vulliamy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, David Filo ranks 333. Before him are Zoran Savić, Tracii Guns, Luca Marchegiani, Benito Archundia, Sarah Waters, and C. Thomas Howell. After him are Wataru Takagi, Frank Ferrer, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, Roopa Ganguly, Bennett Miller, and Laurent Garnier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Filo ranks 10,076 out of 20,380. Before him are Alice Davenport (1864), Bertrand Halperin (1941), Willard Scott (1934), Henry Vestine (1944), Jami Gertz (1965), and Christopher Young (1958). After him are Mike Krzyzewski (1947), Gregory Sierra (1937), Elizabeth Reaser (1975), Tom Price (1933), Jim Montgomery (1955), and Jim Risch (1943).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, David Filo ranks 222. Before him are Mark R. Hughes (1956), Billy Beane (1962), Richard DeVos (1926), Erik Prince (1969), Sam Altman (1985), and Jerry Sanders (1936). After him are Jerry Jones (1942), Abigail Johnson (1961), Irene Rosenfeld (1953), Joel Glazer (1970), John C. Malone (1941), and Steve Wynn (1942).

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