# David Filo

_American businessman_

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Last updated: 2026-10-30

> David Robert Filo is an American billionaire businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with classmate Jerry Yang. His Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.

## Quick facts

- **Born:** 20 April 1966 ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347886#P569))
- **Place of birth:** Wisconsin ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347886#P19))
- **Citizenship:** United States ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347886#P27))
- **Occupation:** entrepreneur; computer scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347886#P106))
- **Education:** Tulane University; Stanford University; Sam Houston High School ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347886#P69))
- **Spouse:** Angela Buenning Filo ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347886#P26))

## Questions

**When was David Filo born?**  
David Filo was born on 20 April 1966 in Wisconsin.

**Where did David Filo study?**  
David Filo was educated at Tulane University, Stanford University, Sam Houston High School.

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## Sources

- [Wikipedia (English): David Filo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Filo) — [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- [Wikipedia (Nepali): डेभिड फिलो](https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8B) — [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
- [Wikidata item Q347886](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q347886) — [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- [Image: David Filo.jpg by Mitchell Aidelbaum from San Francisco, CA, USA (CC BY 2.0)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:David_Filo.jpg)

## Licence and attribution

Text from the Wikipedia article David Filo, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: David Filo.jpg — Mitchell Aidelbaum from San Francisco, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0.

## Cite this page

"David Filo". DigiNepal. Last updated 30 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/david-filo. Retrieved 6 November 2026.