Michael Yang

Michael Yang
Born	August 31, 1961
Occupation	entrepreneur
Children	2
Website
http://www.michaelyang.com/

Michael Yang
Hangul	양민정
Hanja	梁民正
Revised Romanization	Yang Minjeong
McCune–Reischauer	Yang Minjǒng

Michael Yang (born August 31, 1961) is a Korean American entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, California. 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, Michael worked for Xerox, Intergraph, Televideo Samsung and Jazz Multimedia before starting his first venture capital backed startup company mySimon with Yeogirl Yun in April 1998. Michael helped to expand the company to become the largest online price comparison shopping site. As the leading online comparison shopping service, mySimon.com raised $30 million in venture capital investments and was successfully acquired by CNET, a media holding company, for $700 million in February, 2000. He then started Become.com, the next generation online shopping search engine start-up, in January 2004 and raised $37 million in capital from TPG, Transcosmos, EFF and Ron Conway. Become.com became one of the top price comparison shopping sites and profitable in 2008. Michael's story has been written about in publications such as Businessweek, MIT Technology Review, and Christianity Today magazines.

References

• MIT Technology Review
• San Jose Mercury
• Christianlity Today
• E-Commerce Times
• Silicon Valley Watcher

External links

• Michael Yang's profile on Become.com
• Michael Yang's profile on LinkedIn
• www.michaelyang.com

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