It's really a good question and I have been wondering about this for some time too. I can't really offer anything valuable except that Google is a great success

It's really a good question and I have been wondering about this for some time too. I can't really offer anything valuable except that Google is a great success story: "Mr. Brin and Mr. Page, the co-founders, spent nearly a year searching for a chief executive before settling on Mr. Schmidt almost two years ago. In the words of Mr. Brin, who is now 29, ''He was the only candidate who had been to Burning Man,'' a counterculture techno-arts festival held annually in the Nevada desert." from http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/business/in-searching-the-web-google-finds-riches.html?pagewanted=3&src=pm http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/13/business/in-searching-the-...