As an aside. From the same Wikipedia page:<p>&gt;<i>In 1998, Yahoo! bought Viaweb for $49.6 million and renamed the service Yahoo! Store.</i><p>Note how PG seems bullish on VC growth and large exits, whereas his company didn&#x27;t take much VC money and had an insignificant exit compared to today&#x27;s standards (even after adjusting for inflation).<p>Not to mention that even before sold, ViaWeb had an actual business model and paying customers, as opposed to the model followed by lots of YC companies today.<p>Practically it&#x27;s like PG created and sold something like Basecamp&#x2F;37 Signals, rather than the kind of startups he advocates for...