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What's so interesting about Jerry and David's story? I remember to have found what I read about it quite uninteresting, so maybe I lost something.
by hhm 18y ago
What's so interesting about Jerry and David's story? I remember to have found what I read about it quite uninteresting, so maybe I lost something.
- zandorg 18y agoI think it's because they turned a website list into a 60 billion dollar company in about 5 years. And one investor in the early days was Masayoshi Son, and he was once the second richest person in the world in 1999. And that advert in the film Inspector Gadget. It's not worth a corporate biography book, I admit. [Edit] And after the dotcom crash, their market cap (in 2006/2007) was just half of its peak, quite impressive. And they never chickened out and bought, say, Disney. They stuck to their guns.
- 13ren 18y agoWhat's the PhD part? What I like about Google's story is the PhD-technology-research that went into it (tho Woz wasn't a PhD student, I'd put the Apple story in a similar category). Creating a $60B co from nothing is an astonishing achievement - but this one sounds like a business victory, not a technology victory. Although cool++, it's not a PhD-to-riches story - they just happened to be PhD students. http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html "Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations."
- hhm 18y agoExactly; that's why I didn't find Yahoo's story very interesting.
- hhm 18y agoMay I also ask a language-related question. Why are you saying "story" in all these posts, when you are talking about a true story? I thought the word "history" was to be used in those cases, but I think there is a subtler difference between story/history than I previously thought (I thought: story=fiction, history=non-fiction). Could anybody please give me a pointer on this?