http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/brianlent http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/brianlent Brian Lent, the CEO of mobile-search startup Medio, passed on the chance to be an early employee at both Yahoo and Google. Which makes his latest victory especially sweet: Medio, not Google or Yahoo, won the right to run T-Mobile's Web interface for cell phones.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=353898&view=rss&microfeed=true Stanford University is fertile ground for startups. It's also a fertile ground for also-rans. Brian Lent, now CEO of mobile-search startup Medio.com, missed out on the chance to join both Yahoo and Google on the ground floor. Having declined a job offer from Yahoo cofounders David Filo and Jerry Yang — "You couldn't pay me enough money to work for a company called Yahoo!" — Lent then passed on Google: "We all said, 'There will never be another Yahoo!'" Lent had that much right: Larry Page and Sergey Brin must be quite glad their company is not another Yahoo.

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