Today, search giant Google occupies a state-of-the art complex at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Calif. However, when the company was first founded in the late 1990s by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two recent Stanford grads had to make do with a garage that they reportedly rented for US$1,700 a month from the friend of a friend. Fast forward eight years, and Google is vying for Web domination. Page and Brin have not forgotten their humble beginnings, though. They recently purchased the garage
where it all began.
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Google Buys Its First Humble Abode
Posted by: Erika Morphy October 2, 2006 01:52 PMToday, search giant Google occupies a state-of-the art complex at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Calif. However, when the company was first founded in the late 1990s by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two recent Stanford grads had to make do with a garage that they reportedly rented for US$1,700 a month from the friend of a friend. Fast forward eight years, and Google is vying for Web domination. Page and Brin have not forgotten their humble beginnings, though. They recently purchased the garage
where it all began.