Article: YAHOO! BUYOUT A TRIP FOR WORKERS.(Business)(An Internet entrepreneur's windfall will bring actuality to a pact scribbled in crayon)

Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard

A contract is a contract - even if it's scrawled in crayon on a torn scrap of a white paper tablecloth.

That's why Brian O'Kelley, a South Eugene High School graduate and chief technology officer of an East Coast Web firm, plans to take the founding members of the firm's Eugene office to Amsterdam this summer with part of the windfall he's making from the company's sale.

Right Media, an online advertising exchange based in New York City, opened an office in Eugene two years ago, and the co-workers slipped down to Jo Federigo's to celebrate. Someone floated the idea that Right Media would sell for gobs of money in ...

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