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"The company’s co-founders were inspired by a tech talk given at Google Inc. in 2007 by Linus Torvalds" funny how many successful companies are founded after ge
by hrayr 11y ago
"The company’s co-founders were inspired by a tech talk given at Google Inc. in 2007 by Linus Torvalds" funny how many successful companies are founded after getting inspiration from a single talk.
- maaaats 11y agoDo you have more examples like this? Sounds interesting.
- laxatives 11y ago"I was inspired by a tech talk", or "I grew up doing this", etc. are better marketing than "I tried a couple things but this was the most successful". Most of these background stories are revisionist.
- Fomite 11y agoOr easily traced. I could claim that my dissertation topic came from a single conversation in a hallway after a talk. And while technically true, that ignores all the effort that laid the groundwork - and the number of hallway conversations that didn't go anywhere.
- chmaynard 11y agoA video of this wonderful Google tech talk is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
- GBond 11y agoI recall one of the co-founders of posted a long comment on the origin of Github.