 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 in April 1998. mySimon was acquired by CNET in 2000 for $700 million during the first Internet boom.He then started Become.com in January 2004 and raised $37 million in capital from TPG, Transcosmos, EFF and Ron Conway.. Become.com was sold to Shopzilla in 2012.He moved to Los Angeles in 2013 and started Michael Yang Capital Partners I LP, a hedge fund specializing in disruptive information technology companies in 2017.