A
search engine company (now called a
portal) founded by several
Stanford students, one of whom (
Ben Lutch) drives a quite-famous
Porsche 911 turbo, along with five or six other
German cars. Competes with
Yahoo,
Altavista, et. al.
Amusing anecdote: when they were building the site up, all of them lived/worked out of the same suburban house in
Cupertino. To support the site, they had several hundred phone lines installed (plus assorted
T1,
ISDN PRI, etc).
Coders would come and go at
all hours of the night.
Vinod Khosla, the
venture capitalist backing them at
Kleiner Perkins, would sometimes show up in his yellow
Lamborghini. Their neighbors thought they were
drug dealers --
not exactly.