>because none of us knew that we needed Google Search until we saw it, Did you use search engines before Google? It was obviously a shitty experience. And ads?

>because none of us knew that we needed Google Search until we saw it, Did you use search engines before Google? It was obviously a shitty experience. And ads? And don't even start on the folks that thought they could categorize the web by hand, or use META tags to sort it all out. So while the Google guys might not have gone around polling people "What can I build that you'd like and would make me rich?", it was far from a dream of a product no one had thought about. Tons of money was going into search engines and portals by the time Google started. And Bitcoin? The dream of e-cash has been around for a while as well; it wasn't a brand new idea. The implementation was a breakthrough, but the idea has been around for a while. (Nitpick: And at current rates, Satoshi's coins are probably worth much less than a billion dollars. And AFAIK, there's been no movement on the blocks people thinks he has.)