Jerry Yang

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Yahoo is positioned for accelerated financial growth. We have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience, and a highly profitable operating model.

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors, cloud and big data. I am bullish on Scanadu and its potential to revolutionize the way we think about our health.

The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.

I'm a Stanford kid through and through.

My time at Yahoo, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life.

Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

You have to ask what is going to happen to a lot of companies when there is not a lot more money to be gotten. That changes everybody's perspective, I think.

I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.

Without rain, there is no life.

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.

Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.

I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.

The Openbucks Gift Card Payment Network taps into a whole new market of consumers that either by choice or due to limited resources may not have been able to previously buy goods online.

Search is not just an activity or a destination. It's becoming more integrated and more of a platform.

Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop - by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants - by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.