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… and money. Two years ago before he wrote that check, he sold his last startup for a cool $220M. Money begets money!
by mritun 3y ago
… and money. Two years ago before he wrote that check, he sold his last startup for a cool $220M.
Money begets money!
- verdverm 3y agoDon't forget they tried to sell their search engine to Yahoo and others for $1m, and only started Google after no one would buy it.
- quickthrower2 3y agoIf that had happened maybe a trillion dollars of productivity since would have been lost!
- verdverm 3y agoI would suspect much more, they are responsible for things like map-reduce, containers, kubernetes, golang, android, Gmail, and so much more. Things billions of people use directly or indirectly every day
- latency-guy2 3y agoDon't you mean a trillion dollars of luck as way too many people on this thread and adjacent bring up? Considering this website, I find it hilarious how the most common talking point on this post is all "luck", like it's a conspiracy. You'd imagine "risk" would come up even once, but a few hours in, I am the only one bringing it up.
- quickthrower2 3y agoNot sure what you mean? Productivity here is in aggregate over the whole economy, whereas luck might come into it where you say "person X got rich off there idea - they were smart, worked hard, but they also needed some luck, such as being born next door to $influencial_person or whatever lucky thing they had.
- latency-guy2 3y agoI guess that no matter what, it's impossible to believe people made things and the magical forces of the universe made it so only a specific people gets to make these things.
- throw0101b 3y ago> If that had happened maybe a trillion dollars of productivity since would have been lost! On the flip side, how much productivity has been lost because of Youtube? ;)
- ElfinTrousers 3y agoWhich is how he was able to write two students a "modest" check for $100,000.