Am I the only who thinks Yahoo is going to be in excellent shape after they trim down and start focusing on what they're good at?
And that advert in the film Inspector Gadget.
It's not worth a corporate biography book, I admit.
[Edit] And after the dotcom crash, their market cap (in 2006/2007) was just half of its peak, quite impressive. And they never chickened out and bought, say, Disney. They stuck to their guns.
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."