First there were the demos. Uri (â??call me Uriâ?) gave me a 3Ã?3 piece of paper and a very squeaky magic marker. I made two lines and a bunch of squiggly lines. All sqeaking very loud. Try to imagine how they would sound. â??A tree!â? he said with his eyes closed. He was right. Then he took a letter opener and we stood by the heater in the office. He rubbed it very hard until it started to bend.
Ok, I said, whatâ??s the idea?
An entire website on how to generate psychic powers. Including, he said, a big button in the middle of the page that if you kept pushing it, it would increase your potential to have psychic powers.
Itâ??s a free country. Heâ??s allowed to pitch me that idea. I donâ??t know whatever happened to it. Most ideas donâ??t work. Clearly he didnâ??t become the next Google.
In fact, Google almost didnâ??t become the next Google.
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