Ram Shriram Early Investor Story & Facts
Copy link Google is celebrating its 28th birthday today, 27 September. However, on paper, the company was registered on 4 September 1998. After celebrating on different dates in its early years, Google officially fixed 27 September as its birthday from 2006 to commemorate a major record in web indexing.
What would life be like without Google? Today, every question can be answered by saying, "Just Google it," but before 1998, searching for anything could take hours.
Then came Larry Page and Sergey Brin-two geniuses who turned a small project into the world's third-largest technology company.
This is their story, chapter by chapter, like an entertaining film:
Chapter One-The meeting: They first met at Stanford
In 1995, Larry Page, a boy from Michigan, arrived at Stanford to study computer engineering. Both his parents were computer experts, so Larry developed a fascination for machines from an early age.
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