"The company’s co-founders were inspired by a tech talk given at Google Inc. in 2007 by Linus Torvalds" funny how many successful companies are founded after getting inspiration from a single talk.
"I was inspired by a tech talk", or "I grew up doing this", etc. are better marketing than "I tried a couple things but this was the most successful". Most of these background stories are revisionist.
Or easily traced. I could claim that my dissertation topic came from a single conversation in a hallway after a talk. And while technically true, that ignores all the effort that laid the groundwork - and the number of hallway conversations that didn't go anywhere.
