During their doctoral studies in the early 1990s, Jerry Yang and David Filo, PhD candidates in electrical engineering at Stanford University, would often get together to work on their class assignments. At one point, they decided to create an online system to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet. The website, which they called “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web,” initially started as a hobby, but soon took up more and more of Yang and Filo’s time. In fact, they started spending more time on the website than they did studying for their degrees. Eventually, their online record ...
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