Sarin, 54, flirted with the Internet world, serving as chief executive of InfoSpace from 2000 to 2001.
As the second employee of InfoSpace, Jean-Remy Facq saw the value of his stock inflate and then collapse.
InfoSpace, based in Seattle, is establishing its product as the platform of choice for wireless content and commerce.
The site also gets money from bricks-and-mortar outlets that advertise on InfoSpace, an Internet yellow pages linked to Ehow.
Branded ads and licensing its search technology to other sites, including Hotbot and Infospace, accounted for another 37% of revenue.
InfoSpace is the pioneer in building information services for the mobile phones.
Tom Taulli has founded several companies, including Web-hosting firm Hypermart.net, which was sold to InfoSpace, and has been an adviser to startups.
Chinese Internet outfit Netease.com is up 40% since early November, and mobile phone content producer InfoSpace has gained as much since September.
"My whole life has been a set of failures, " says Mr. Jain, whose Internet-search venture InfoSpace almost ran out of money in the 1990s.
The company is the brainchild of former NASA scientist Barney Pell, aerospace executive Robert Richards (who is CEO) and Intelius and Infospace founder Naveen Jain.
Taking the advice of "Roof" Lumry, Perry and Hooper made a killing on early hit Infospace.com, which links content to wireless devices and Web sites.
Horowitz's new job: co-vice chairman and president of InfoSpace.
Pell founded the company with two others that he met at Singularity University, Naveen Jain, the founder of InfoSpace and Intelius, and Dr. Robert Richards, a founder of International Space University, who is CEO of Moon Express.
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