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He graduated from Sam Houston High School and then earned a Bachelor of Surgery in computer engineering at Tulane University (through the Dean"s Honor Scholarship) and an Master of Surgery at Stanford University.
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! web site. At age six, he moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of Lake Charles, Louisiana. As of December 2014, Filo is estimated to be worth $3.8 billion, ranking him as the 580th richest person in the world.
In 2005 he gave $30 million to his alma mater, Tulane University, for use in its School of Engineering.
In 2013, they helped create the K12 Start Fund, which invests in education technology companies. In February 1994, he co-created with Jerry Yang an Internet website called "Jerry and David"s Guide to the World Wide Web", consisting of a directory of other websites.
lieutenant was renamed "Yahoo!" (an exclamation). Yahoo! became very popular, and Filo and Yang realized the business potential and co-founded Yahoo! Incorporated.