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The whole rest of the article is him explaining how it works!

Additionally, "we started a company to make Java faster and garbage collection was around #3 on our list" is informative. There's only one sentence that could really be cut ("founded in 2005" or somesuch.)

No, they should have just edited out the question at the beginning, seeing as the article isn't in a Q&A format anyway. Then the company history wouldn't have felt out of place.

a little corporate history should be okay if the rest of the article is actually answering the question.