Telsa

Insight from reading:
The Search : How Google and its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Busines and Transformed out Culture, by John Battelle

Battelle is cofounder of Wired and of The Industry Standard

Chapter 4 : Google is Born

"Of all the frictional resistance, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance."
and
"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search...
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theroy and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor."
Nikola Teslaa as quoted in the NYTimes 1931

Larry Page read a biography of Tesla at 12, and wanted both to invent like Tesla and advoid the relative obscurity that Tesla suffered.

Looks like, so far, he's succeeded.