it all started in a garage with an investment of $2000. today the company is worth more than 240 billion dollars. what was it? in 1998, two Stanford university students, Larry page and Sergey Brin, developed Google, a search site that helps internet users find information easily. Compard to other sites, Google was fastre, an d it has become one of most popular search enaines on the internet.
every day google recceives more than one billion searches from people around the globe in 181 countries and in 146 languages. thar's about 500 million people using google daily. the verb "to google" is now part of everyday language in English. it means to search for information on the internet.
Google's work culture is different from most other companies. the workplace is unconventional and informal. people dress casually, and they can even bring their pets to work. the idea is to create a relaxed family atmosphere. most of the employees are very young. Google has one of the youngest workforces in the world.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. workers are encouraged to spend 20 precent of their time thinking about ways to make the company better. that's how google maps, google Earth, and gmil developed.
But what about the founders? well, Larry page is still the company's CEO, and sergey brin is head of special projects. they lead fairly normal lives, but the only difference is that they're over 20 billion dollars richer.