The story
Two Stanford PhD students ranked web pages by the links pointing to them. Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a $100,000 check to Google Inc. before that company existed, and they set up in a Menlo Park garage.
No. 015 · 1998 · Menlo Park
Check written to a company that didn't exist yet.
Page one of everything
Make my startup a legend- 1 Stanford, 1996. A project called BackRub.
- 2 The first storage rack is built out of Lego.
- 3 An investor writes $100K to Google Inc.
- 4 Google Inc. does not exist. It sits in a drawer.
- 5 They rent a garage in Menlo Park.
- 6 Their homepage is one box.
- 7 Then they sell tiny text ads.
- 8 Now it's a verb.
- Founders
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin
- Founded
- 1998, Menlo Park
- What they do
- Search, ads, YouTube, Android and cloud.