Yahoo’s David Filo on Frugality, Early Days of Yahoo! & Bangalore
By kamla bhatt • Dec 6th, 2009Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, USA
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David Filo and his classmate Jerry Yang started Yahoo! in the mid-1990s, when the Internet was just taking off. Their initial website was a collection of interesting links, a list of sorts, which eventually morphed and became a major Internet company.
In this interview David talks about the early days of Yahoo!, frugality and Bangalore, which is where Yahoo! India’s is located.
Tune is to find out what is David’s favorite Indian food and music.
This interview was originally recorded in 2006 in Bangalore.
In November 2009, this version of the interview was broadcast on Stanford’s radio station.
You can listen to a longer version Part-2 and Part-3 of the interview with David.
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
