It all
started in a garage that you can still find with minimal effort — especially if
you're usingGoogle Maps.
Less than
one mile off U.S. Route 101, the highway that links San Francisco to the rest
of Silicon Valley, you'll come to a quiet neighborhood a stone's throw from
Stanford's beautifully manicured campus. It was in Menlo Park, in a
single-story home on Santa Margarita Avenue, that Googleco-founders Larry
Page and Sergey Brin rented the garage from Susan Wojcicki, now a Google senior
VP, who was fresh out of business school and afraid of missing her mortgage
payments.
The duo
spent the winter of 1998 in the now famous garage, building the tech company
that would change search, and consequently the Internet, forever.
That was
15 years ago, and Google has since become a multi-billion dollar corporation
that answers all of our questions and may soon even drive our cars. The company
now owns the house, which is no longer lived in, but will always serve as a
reminder of where Google started.
To
celebrate the company's 15th birthday, Mashable put together a
slideshow looking back at the company's earliest days and the garage where it
all started.
Source: mashable.com
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