Posts Tagged ‘David Filo’

By kamla bhatt • Dec 6th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, USA

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 [...]



By kamla bhatt • Feb 14th, 2009 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Entertainment, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

Yahoo’s Hackday India is currently underway at the Taj Residency in Bangalore, India.  There are two types of folks attending the events: the hackers and the info geeks, who are not particiapants but are there to attend the various technology seminars.
There are 303 hackers and about 60 infogeeks  participating at this 2-day hackday India event. [...]



By kamla bhatt • Oct 18th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley

In Part-2 of our conversation David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! talks about their early days and what it was like to work in a startup environment. Did he and Jerry Yang have Plan B when they decided to go full time with Yahoo? What does he have to say about working in a startup or [...]