[bapadna]

their willingness to sell for $750k makes me wonder if they were the visionaries then that they appear to be now.

Or perhaps they had more than one idea, and selling a preliminary collection of search algorithms to reduce personal financial pressure made sense to them given the high-risk nature of the market they were playing in.

[ryanwaggoner]

Yeah, that sounded more derogatory than I meant. I just mean they weren't as invested in the vision of Google as they appear to be now, which I think is part of their value.