So, still waiting for confirmed sightings of the Google founders on their rumored kite-surfing expeditions to Hawaii, but Bill Tai of Charles River Ventures — "a kiter that VCs" — says that they're often to be found in San Francisco Bay off San Mateo.

Both are regulars at the Valley's main kiting spot — 3rd Av. in San Mateo — and both are quite good. I'm more familiar with Sergey's kiting having run into him kiting two years ago, on a tough day for others to stay upwind — he was crusin'. He attributed it to his prior experience roller kiting (rollerblades) in the desert at Burning Man.

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