Google has hired investment banker George Boutros to tell it what to do about Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. Back in 2001, Wired magazine profiled Credit Suisse M&A man George Boutros. "Boutros is known in M&A circles as a briefcase slammer," Adam Lashinsky wrote. "The kind of negotiator who will do whatever it takes to make the other guy blink." In this case, that means spending $9 billion or more of Google's ever-growing cash pile.

It's the last Valleywag hotties quarterfinal.

Round one's over, and four more men will go home crying. The breakdown: