It’s little known that Google was never meant to be a company. In fact, in 1998 Vinod Khosla (one of the first investors in Google) managed to convince Larry Page and Sergey Brin to sell their technology to Lycos, Excite, or Yahoo, the leading search engines of the time, for a paltry million dollars so […] Author information Johann Beishline Co-founder at Lezal Marketing Johann Beishline is the co-founder of Lezal Marketing – an Internet marketing firm in Phoenix, AZ. He is an avid runner & coffee drinker.