ClaimsMarc Andreessen

“The guys who started it are Ph.D. students at Stanford.”

Marc Andreessen, Netscape founder and COO June 1995 Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Marc Andreessen (Smithsonian) archived copy

Factual Technology

Yahoo was started by Ph.D. students at Stanford.

Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

What would count as true or false

Judged as of June 1995. True: records show Yahoo's founders (Jerry Yang and David Filo) were Stanford Ph.D. students (electrical engineering) when they started it in 1994. Mostly true: they were Stanford graduate students and Ph.D. candidates, with a minor detail off (for example they had just left the programme by 1995). Mostly false: only one founder was a Stanford Ph.D. student, or they were Stanford students of another kind. False: the founders were not Stanford Ph.D. students.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (2)

  1. E1 Marissa Mayer named CEO of Yahoo! Stanford University School of Engineering · 16 July 2012

    “Founders David Filo and Jerry Yang were doctoral candidates in electrical engineering in February 1994 when they started their guide in a campus trailer as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet.”

  2. E2 On the 20th Anniversary – The History of Yahoo’s Founding Internet History Podcast · March 2015

    “In early 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were PhD students in electrical engineering at Stanford.”

Reasoning

Stanford Engineering's news page [E1] says David Filo and Jerry Yang were doctoral candidates in electrical engineering when they started their guide in February 1994. The Internet History Podcast retrospective [E2] also says both were Stanford PhD students in electrical engineering in early 1994. The two sources agree, and together they meet the criteria's definition of true.

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Marc Andreessen, “Yahoo was started by Ph.D. students at Stanford.” (said June 1995). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_e5a68210f3ef, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_e5a68210f3ef

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