### Comment:
google was also built with government money through MIT. i believe Yasha Levine writes on this

### REPLY:
I know Bezos and some of the Sun guys were early investors, but I wasn’t aware of that, which is actually pretty interesting (although seeing as how they dumped scads if cash into ARPANET, they were also probably eager to see the internet actually take off, and they had the rank algorithm to do it).

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