10 Super Successful Startup Partnerships That Nailed The World
Jerry Yang and David Filo
A mutual idea and a mutual expression- Yahoooo…!
Year: 1995
Company: Yahoo!
Partnership: This pair first worked together on a project designing computer chips at Stanford’s project in 1994. It was as dull as it sounds, so Yang and Filo skipped class to surf the web. Eventually, they began keeping tabs of their favorite sites. They organized them under topics, and their lists morphed into Yahoo!
How it worked: A mutual passion for the web united Yang and Filo. They found themselves spending 20 hours a day scouring websites for fun. Eventually Stanford punted them off campus because their "lists" continually crashed the campus' system. It was then that Yang and Filo realized they had a business on their hands, decided to stick together, and received funding from Sequoia Capital.
