Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recently sat down with billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla for a lengthy interview. Page and Brin, who rarely take the stage together for interviews, start the forty-minute session by reminiscing with Khosla about Googles aborted sale to search engine Excite in 1999. Page and Brin say they eventually pulled out of the deal — worth either $350,000, according to Khosla, or more than a million according to the co-founders — because Excite lacked the passion for search that the nascent Google embodied. Google was alost sold to search engine Excite in 1999
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