While I wouldn't say Larry Page and Sergey Brin have built google into a multi-billion dollar company by accident, I'd imagine they weren't thinking billions when they tried to sell their prototype to yahoo (they did try to sell what they'd built to yahoo or alta vista, did they not?). They set out to make webpages easy to find. Now they are onto a much bigger mission. At any rate that's what they say. That's the sense in which I mean being led somewhere by your company.