What's the PhD part? What I like about Google's story is the PhD-technology-research that went into it (tho Woz wasn't a PhD student, I'd put the Apple story in a similar category).
Creating a $60B co from nothing is an astonishing achievement - but this one sounds like a business victory, not a technology victory. Although cool++, it's not a PhD-to-riches story - they just happened to be PhD students.
May I also ask a language-related question. Why are you saying "story" in all these posts, when you are talking about a true story? I thought the word "history" was to be used in those cases, but I think there is a subtler difference between story/history than I previously thought (I thought: story=fiction, history=non-fiction). Could anybody please give me a pointer on this?
Creating a $60B co from nothing is an astonishing achievement - but this one sounds like a business victory, not a technology victory. Although cool++, it's not a PhD-to-riches story - they just happened to be PhD students.
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html "Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations."