"It seems to me the business guys who did the most for Google were the ones who obligingly flew Altavista into a hillside just as Google was getting started."

"It seems to me the business guys who did the most for Google were the ones who obligingly flew Altavista into a hillside just as Google was getting started." (http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html) Now that I know more about the history of Google, I wouldn't phrase it so extremely, because it's unfair to Omid Kordestani and Salar Kamangar among others.