rich kids x1 profile: drew swing all gaps included listen up subscriptions editor contact guestbook			Brewer and Gauthier never really intended to start a company. In 1995 they were both at the University of California at Berkeley: Gauthier, then 23, a Canadian from Nova Scotia, was a grad student; Brewer, then 28 and a native of Orange County, Calif., was an assistant professor and Gauthier's graduate adviser. Gauthier's computer science master's thesis explored the idea of stringing together regular PCs and workstations to make them function like high-powered supercomputers. To test the new computer architecture in action, they created an Internet search engine--a laboratory exercise that, except for the gathering Internet mania, might have produced no more than a few white papers. Instead the search engine became the foundation for a $6 billion company and a source of continual wonderment to its co-founders. "I think by any metric we're bigger than I had any right to expect us to be," says Gauthier. Brewer and Gauthier were aware that the world didn't exactly need another search engine--there were already six up and running--but they felt that their technology was better. Since it was based on clustered computers, it was faster, more reliable, and far more scalable than the competition's. In addition to having breakthrough technology, Brewer and Gauthier had a novel idea about how to make money on it. Unlike Yahoo and Lycos, say, with their expensively branded Websites, Brewer and Gauthier would sell their search engine to other people's sites and let their technology work behind the scenes. It was a brilliant move. The only problem was that Brewer and Gauthier knew nothing about starting a business. Then, in mid-1996 the pair hired 52-year-old Dave Peterschmidt of Sybase to be Inktomi's CEO. Gauthier works ten- to 12-hour days, doing everything from overseeing teams of programmers to traveling across the country to speak at conferences. Brewer, on the other hand, helped Inktomi get under way while overseeing big research projects at Berkeley and teaching one class. Now a tenured professor, Brewer spends two or three days a week at Inktomi on what he calls "long-term strategy and technology." The rest of the time he's at Berkeley. Brewer finds he prefers the impact his work has in academia. "At Berkeley I get a much broader vision of where the Internet is going than I would just at Inktomi," says Brewer. Inktomi has given him and his partner a combined worth of $872 million. Gauthier has no plans at all for his millions. "A few weeks ago I was living with two roommates in a flat, sharing a living room couch," he says. "I'm still busy being a little overwhelmed." Brewer says thinks he'll donate most of it--probably to educational and environmental causes. As for spending money on himself, Brewer has been indulging a taste for mid-1980s cabernets. Says Brewer: "I don't think I'm very good at being wealthy yet."