From Larry Page and Sergey Brin to Sundar Pichai, Learn about the Owners of Google

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Google is the most used preferred search engine ever since its launch in 1998. The Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched the platform when they were data science students at Stanford University.

In this article, Edureify will provide all the interesting facts about the two geniuses who launched what is today considered the most used search engine. The various government exams in India like WBCS, Railways, Banking, IBPS, SSC, and more require their candidates to have adequate knowledge of the leaders who brought revolutionary changes not just politically but even technologically. Edureify, the best AI Learning App makes sure that its students are well aware of the exponential leaders who developed such an engaging platform as Google.

Read on to learn more about Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin and their search for business

Page and Brin were data science students at Stanford University when they came together to develop an idea that budded inside them. They were keen on building a platform that would extract meaning from the accumulated mass data on the Internet.

The duo began working from Page’s dormitory room and developed a new type of search engine which they called BackRub. This was a blueprint for using the ‘backing links’ abilities to facilitate the rankings of different web pages for generating higher possibilities of searches.

In the mid-1998, the duo received their first outside financing from Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. They put up their first shop in Menlo Park, California with the name Google. Google is a spelling mistake of Page’s original name Googol, which is a mathematical term for the number one followed by 100 zeroes.

Eventually, the duo ventured out and by mid-1999, Google received $25 million in capital funding and since then, there was no going back.

Interesting Facts on Google

The original name, Googol, was meant to signify that the search engine would provide information on huge quantities
On 15^th September 1997, the domain google.com was registered and on 4^th September 1998 the company was launched
The PageRank algorithm of Google was invented together by the duo
They created Alphabet in 2015 which consisted of entities like Google, Nest, Calico, and others
Craig Silverstein, a PhD student at Stanford, was the first employee hired by the google owners

The various Google owners over time

Larry and Sergey met at Stanford University in August 1996, developed PageRank and launched Google
The duo tried to sell Google in 1999 for $1 million and then at $750,000
The primary slogan of Google is ‘Don’t be Evil’
Page withdrew from his CEO position and gave it to Eric Schmidt in August 2001
Google went public in August 2004 with a $27 billion valuation
Page bought Android in 2005 for $50 million
The 16^th employee of Google, Susan Wojcicki convinced Page and Brin to acquire YouTube in 2006
The Google Chrome Browser was launched in September 2008 with the efforts of the newly appointed CEO of Google in 2015, Sundar Pichai
In 2019, both Brin and Page stepped down from their positions at Alphabet Inc., and appointed Pichai as the CEO

About Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai, born on 10^th June 1972, comes from Chennai, India. As a young boy, Pichai though had to share the living room with his brother while sleeping in a cramped family, he received a proper education. From a young age, Pichai showed an interest in technology and had an excellent memory especially of remember telephone numbers.

Pichai completed his B.Tech in 1993 and was awarded a silver medal at IIT Kharagpur where he received a scholarship to study at Stanford University. This began Sundar Pichai’s journey of unending recognition and success. After completing his M.S in engineering and material science in 1995 he stayed back in the US where he worked for Applied Materials. He later earned his MBA in 2002 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2004, Pichai joined Google as the head of product management and development after a short period of working in the management consulting firm Mckinsey & Co. Other companies like Microsoft and Twitter approached Pichai for employment, but Pichai was made to remain in Google with greater financial grants.

In 2015 when Larry and Sergey announced the launch of Alphabet Inc., Pichai was then named the CEO of Google. Later, in 2019 Larry and Sergey stepped down as the CEO of Alphabet Inc., and Pichai was named its CEO too.

Google has now become a part of the daily lingo when people use terms like ‘just Google it!’. It is a search engine that generates billions of search results daily.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin are an inspiration that small ideas can one day indeed grow and become a successful business with hard work and determination.

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