Founders Quiz

I love reading books about how companies began their lives.

My favorites are about companies in the high tech industry - since that is where I’ve spent the majority of my career. I am currently reading the “The Google Story” by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed on my Palm T/X, something I would never have endorsed in theory, until I tried it myself.

I love traditional paper and ink books. I love the look, the feel, and the smell of them. I love turning the pages and taking them in and out of the book shelf at the library or my favorite book store. But for the sake of convenience, I also like a good electronic book. I can slip it into my shirt pocket and read it at times when I couldn’t, or shouldn’t, be seen reading a book. I’ll let you be the judge of when those times could be.

The Google Story takes me back many years to the beginning of my career when I daydreamed about working in the next garage development lab. I wanted to work next to the greatest whiz kids of my generation. Late nights at the computer banging out code, or bent over breadboards designing the next big electronic thing-a-ma-jig.

See if you can match some of the founders with their companies.


Don't peek at the answers!



A-6, B-8, C-1, D-2, E-3, F-7, G-5, H-4