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Old 10-02-2006   #1 (permalink)
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Default Google buys the garage where it all began...

...and I bet Larry and Serg had something to do with it.

The house is where the original Garage is located. The Garage was rented by Larry and Sergey for $1,700.00 a month back when they first started digging into this whole Search Engine thing. Now they want the entire house.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search leader Google Inc. has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire - the Silicon Valley home where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world.

The Mountain View-based company bought the 1,900-square-foot home in nearby Menlo Park from one of its own employees, Susan Wojcicki, who had agreed to lease her garage for $1,700 per month because she wanted some help paying the mortgage.

Wojcicki, now Google's vice president of product management, didn't work for the company at the time and only knew the Stanford University graduate students because one of her friends had dated Brin.

During Google's five-month history there, the garage became like a second home for Page and Brin.

The entrepreneurs, then just 25, seemed to be always working on their search engine or soaking in the hot tub that still sits on the property. They also had a penchant for raiding Wojcicki's refrigerator - a habit that may have inspired Google to provide a smorgasbord of free food to the 8,000 employees on its payroll.
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I'm guessing we'll see some kind of Google Museum or shrine come out of this.
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can we call it lucky carage owner? or something like inspiration garage.
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that's a piece of history that they're buying ;)

they can probably preserve that place and build a mini museum outside for a day tour
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that's a piece of history that they're buying ;)

they can probably preserve that place and build a mini museum outside for a day tour
And build a website about it. Google will do just about anything for new content ideas.
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probably http://history.google.com/ ;)

That said, im impressed with Google's humble beginnings!
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I wish that somehow I lived in that house now becasue I would not be selling it to them for any reasonable price. That is funny how much HP paid for where they first started out.
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Well, what is worth seeing is what they actually end up doing with this...
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If you know anything about that area you'll know that house was worth a fortune even before Google came around.
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Interesting one.

what's up with IT comapnies and garages anyway?
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That's an interesting story. I'm sure they wanted it for the sentimental reasons, but this Garage will offer them some great publicity. Not that Google needs publicity...
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