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You're right. I should have said "first internet businesses", and now I have.

I could still be totally wrong, but at least now it's genuine ignorance not a typing mistake.

Google was really part of the second wave of successful internet businesses, including search. Yahoo was going public as Google was getting started. Inktomi was worth over 20B at some point, in fact I was there when the company had an opportunity to acquire Google and said no.

pg made his money in an Internet business:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb

I see you've cranked out a blog entry with your beliefs:

https://medium.com/@drb/the-computer-science-driven-start-up...

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