Yang left his role at the helm of Manhattan Prep in early 2012. In December 2009, Manhattan Prep was acquired by testing giant Kaplan, Inc. Under Yang's direction, the company grew from five to 69 locations. Manhattan Prep focused on the GMAT mostly. Then, in 2005, he joined his pal Zeke Vanderhoek at a test prep company called Manhattan Prep. From 2002 to 2005, Yang was employed as the Vice President of a health care startup. The site was a victim of the first dot-com bubble's bursting. In February 2000, Yang founded Stargiving, a website for celebrity-focused charitable fundraising. However, after just five months he resigned because the work was both grueling and unfulfilling. He graduated in 1996 and enrolled at Columbia University's law school, which he graduated from in 1999,Ĭareer: After graduating from law school, Yang started his career as a corporate attorney in Manhattan. He majored in economics and political science.
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After graduating in 1992, Yang enrolled at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. National Debate team that competed in London at that year's world championships. Yang's parents sent him to the elite Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. At 12, Yang scored 1220 out of a possible 1600 on the SAT, which earned him admission to Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth, a summer program for gifted kids, which he attended for the next five summers. Yang was academically gifted and skipped a grade, so he was also one of the smaller kids in his class, leading to further bullying. He was bullied at school as one of the few Asian students in his town. As a kid, Yang played Dungeons & Dragons, tennis and the piano. His parents met at graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley. He grew up in Westchester County, New York with his older brother Lawrence.
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Yang was born in Schenectady, New York on January 13, 1975.