When Yahoo Ruled the Valley: Stories of the Original ‘Surfers’
They were called surfers, and they were a collection of mostly 20-somethings — including a yoga lover, an ex-banker, a divinity student, a recent college grad from Ohio hungry for adventure — all hired by a start-up called Yahoo to build a directory of the world’s most interesting websites.
Today, with more than one billion websites across the globe, the very notion seems mad. Even then, there was a hint of insanity about the enterprise.
Yet, sitting in the shadow of a life-size, papier-mâché sculpture of Elvis, the surfers built Yahoo.com into the home page for a generation of web users. Their work helped define the early internet.
