A person I know from Stanford told me a story once. He was a professor here when Larry and Sergey were starting on their PhD research, and one of them was taking his class. One day, they approached him and pitched their idea for a search engine. They asked if he would consider being one of their early investors. Do you know what he said?

"That sounds like a great idea guys, but I don't see how two PhD students are going to unseat Yahoo."