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mmcconnell1618 on March 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

Google offered to sell to Alta Vista (for somewhere in the 1-2 million range) if I recall correctly and they were turned down. Sometimes the giants don't see change coming.

wcarss on March 10, 2012 [–]

It was $1,000,000 to Excite, not Alta Vista.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excite

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