Start-Up Story (From The Dorm Room of Stanford to Googleplex)
By: Mohsin Ali
Tags: Entrepeneurship, CEO, Google, Founders, Startup

The story begins in 1995 at Standford University when two Ph.D. students decided to change the landscape of the whole world. It was a research project that started in 1996 by the name of Backrub. The backrub was a search engine that use links to determine the importance of individual pages on the world wide web.

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These two Ph.D. students were Larry Page and Sergy Brin and their vision is to make the world’s information accessible for everyone, so they start working in this arena. Soon after the name of backrup has changed to Google. The name Google is denoted with a mathematical expression that shows number 1 with 100 zeros. The first domain of google.com was registered on 15th September 1997.

Over the next few years, Google grabbed the attention of not only the academic community but also the investors of Silicon Valley. In August 1998 sun co-founder, Andy invested $100,000 in the start-up venture of Sergy Brin and Larry Page. This investment foster the vision of Larry and Brin.

Nobody had ever imagined what Google will become in the coming days. With this early investment of $100,000, Google moved from the dorms of Stanford to their first office: a garage in the suburban Menlo Park California owned by Susan Wojcicki, who later become the CEO of You tube.

Early operations in the garage helped google to con-temporize its direction. Larry and Berin were continuously thinking to streamline all the information in a feasible order which helps the users to get what they want. Google was growing rapidly. The teams of engineering and sales were expanding rapidly. The young graduates from different universities become part of this expeditious growing start-up.

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And this is becoming the strength for Google. At this moment with the prompt growth google moved to its current head office which is situated in Mountain View California.

Google become the biggest search engine in the world, but this was not an easy journey for them. When Google was new in the business, they only focused on their search business but at that moment they didn’t realize the importance of web browsers. Microsoft launched its internet explorer which apprehends the market share of Google. This was the time when Google realized the importance of a web browser and launched Google Chrome.

The launch of Google Chrome succor google to get their market share back and from there, google never looked back and experienced exponential growth with the innovations in their products. After this global penetration of the internet, many tech companies launch smartphones in the international market. Google interpose the whole situation and launched its software for all smartphone companies. Google partner with different mobile manufacturing companies and provide its Android software to them for making their product more user friendly.

The partnership of Tech companies and Google, revolutionize the whole world and this is how Larry and Sergy begin the youngest billionaire of the world. Google makes products with the intention to be used by the Next Billion Users (NBU).

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The story of Google is the best case study for all young startups and entrepreneurs, who want to become the next global giant. These successful startup stories will not only help you to get motivated but also it will help you to learn strategies and processes which those successful entrepreneurs adapt in their early days.