Nothing you wrote was a response to what I wrote.
I also don't care what you 'studied'. I lived it. Google and Apple were literally, and this is a quantifiable fact and not an opinion as you seem to be treating it in your response, the 10 person startups that were going against industry behemoths.
Yahoo was, at the time, was a Juggernaut.
I.B.M., at the time, was a Juggernaut.