Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

They met at Stanford, started an Internet company together, and are now worth gazillions. For which of these dynamic duos does this description NOT apply?

  1. Larry Page and Sergey Brin

  2. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen

  3. Jerry Yang and David Filo

  4. Scott McNealy and Bill Joy
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford before founding Google. Jerry Yang and David Filo met at Stanford before creating Yahoo. Scott McNealy and Bill Joy were both Stanford alumni who built Sun Microsystems. However, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen met while working at PayPal (then owned by eBay), not at Stanford, before founding YouTube. All four pairs became incredibly wealthy, but only the Hurley-Chen duo did not meet at Stanford.

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