I was all set to write a snarky comment about the WSJ doing another piece on how (retrospectively) brilliant some outlier founder was until I read the piece and discovered that "wisdom" refers to a series of blog posts written by AdMob's Employee #1. Skip the WSJ and go straight to the source:

http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2009/05/23/omar-hamoui-on-ideas-an... http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2009/05/25/omar-hamoui-on-deals-an... http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2009/05/26/omar-hamoui-on-sales-an... http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2009/05/27/omar-hamoui-on-competit... http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2009/05/29/omar-hamoui-on-communic...