Yahoo!'s working culture
How joint founders split their roles is always a source of interest for outsiders - and a necessary issue to be sorted out by those involved. In Yahoo's case the two founders have no defined roles - both Yang and Filo are: 'Chief Yahoos' - although each tends towards a particular side of the managerial and technical divide.
'David and I have similar roles, but he's much more on the technical side,' says Yang:
'He is the one that really is behind the way that we are organized from a technology standpoint. If you look at Yahoo we served up 385 million pages a day in the month of September - somebody has got to be in the back figuring out how to get all these pages served up as fast as we can. David is the guy who believes ...
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