IITian - 7:07 pm on Aug 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

>It took a lot of guts to swim upstream against the entrenched corporate interests, including the banking houses themselves...

Considering that among their lead underwriters was Morgan Stanley, the ultimate Wall Street insider, accused of all possible sins by the authorities, its VCs - the biggest VCs one could get, its CEO - a veteran corporate-man, advisors - veteran professors from establishment universities, one could argue that companies don't come more establishment than Google.

Nice PR spin though to portray itself as something different. This required real guts.