"BREAKING NEWS!!! Ten Years Later, A "Third" Google Founder Comes Out Of The Woodwork. Don't miss the touching story of the hero who helped fund Google then never got proper recognition!
(later...)
BREAKING NEWS!!! "Third" Google "Founder" EXPOSED as a HOAX! Read all about the impostor who spurred lots of SHOCKING controversy earlier this week!"
If he and Google's founders were friends, why didn't he stay in touch with them throughout the formation of their company? Why suddenly contact them ten years later?
In any case, it seems he just wasn't willing to take the risk and so can hardly be called "founder" ...
I hope we can all come together in ignoring this guy. This really deserves no attention whatsoever. If he manages to stir enough controsversy he might get paid in a settlement and that'd be really sad.
Sorry, but if you were really so instrumental in creating Google and didn't get any credit for it then you did something wrong, whether it was abandoning the somewhat risky startup life to pursue the less risky PhD, or whatever.
Wasn't Google originally called "BackRub" and didn't the idea for ad-words which this guy is claiming to have helped them hash out not come along until after the search engine was a success?
how is it posssible to not say anything for 10 years and suddenly out of nowhere come with the news. well there should be some sort of proof he can show....Its sad..but if you left...hey if you don't jump in a train sometimes it will leave you behind....
If this individual elected to pursue his PhD work instead of carrying on with google, then he hasn't a right to complain that he is not getting the "recognition" he feels he deserved.
Youtube had a third founder who pursued his PHD as well instead of being involved in the daily activities. Apparently he was still a consultant of some sort. But at the end he cashed in a few millions when the company was acquired.
