Michael Yang
Occupation(s)Entrepreneur, investor
Children4
Korean name
Hangul
양민정
Hanja
梁民正
Revised RomanizationYang Minjeong
McCune–ReischauerYang Minjǒng
Websitehttp://www.michaelyang.com/

Michael Yang is a Korean American technology entrepreneur and investor. He was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to San Jose, California on April 2, 1976, with his family when he was 14 years old.

After attending UC Berkeley and Columbia University graduate school, Yang worked for Xerox, Intergraph, Televideo, Samsung and Jazz Multimedia. In 1998, he co-founded his first company mySimon, which was acquired by CNET in 2000 for $700 million during the first Internet boom.[1]

He then co-founded Become.com in 2005[2] and raised $37 million in capital from TPG, Transcosmos, EFF and Ron Conway.. Become.com was sold to Shopzilla in 2012.

Yang moved to Los Angeles in 2013 and started Michael Yang Capital Partners I LP, a hedge fund specializing in information technology companies in 2017.

References

  1. ↑ Ho, Soyoung (January 12, 2009). "Bankers, Grocers and Lots of Kims". Forbes.
  2. ↑ admin-ectnews (2006-10-12). "Become.com CEO Yang: Comparison Search Is Evolving". E-Commerce Times. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
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