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Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 30:15 Ben Gilbert Gopher, AltaVista, Hotbot, InktoMe, Lycos, Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek.
- ▶ 30:25 David Rosenthal So, the closest they get that spring and summer is with Excite.
- ▶ 30:50 David Rosenthal The two of them are running the firm and Vinod is on the board of Excite.
- ▶ 30:54 David Rosenthal And so somehow Larry and Sergey, and I think they bring Scott along, get a meeting with Vinod and they hammer out a deal that Excite is going to license this back rub search technology from the two of them for about a million dollars.
- ▶ 31:10 David Rosenthal Part of that's in Excite stock.
- ▶ 31:12 David Rosenthal And Larry and Sergey are gonna come, work at Excite that summer, implement Backrub for their search, you know, basically make Excite into Google, and then they're gonna leave and they're gonna go back to Stanford in the fall.
- ▶ 31:26 David Rosenthal And they get so far that they run a test, a side-by-side test of Excite's search results.
- ▶ 31:39 David Rosenthal That they're demoing this test to Excite's CEO as, like, a final step to finalizing this deal, and the results are so relevant with Backrub.
- ▶ 31:56 David Rosenthal You click, you go to it, and the usual Excite search is bad.
- ▶ 33:29 David Rosenthal This deal was never going to happen with Excite or anybody else because it broke the business model.
- ▶ 54:36 David Rosenthal Like Yahoo was the big player, not AltaVista or Excite or Lycos or Infoseek or any of these others.
- ▶ 3:25:08 David Rosenthal They were counter-positioned against the other search engines that existed at the time in that they, as we talked about with Excite, when they were trying to sell Backrub to Excite, the other search engines wanted you to stay on the page.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 13:54 David Rosenthal And when your portfolio companies include Netscape and Amazon and Excite, these would be quite valuable deals, both for Excite and for the young startups.
- ▶ 59:37 David Rosenthal He does the same for Excite.