The son of a Michigan State University computer science professor, Larry Page’s fascination with computers began at the age of six. He graduated from the University of Michigan, where he earned a BSc in Engineering.
He then went to Stanford University, where he first met Sergey
Brin, a native of Moscow, received a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park.
In 1996, those two young PhD students at Stanford University came up with an idea for an Internet search engine and created a company called Google as a vehicle for developing and marketing their idea.
By June 2005, Google had become the world’s biggest media company with an estimated stock market value of $80bn and went from around 3000 employees to 47,756 in 2013.
Its dominant position in the search engine field is without question; when most people think search, they immediately think Google.But Google is more than just a search engine. For example, the company set up an email service called Gmail. In 2005, products called Google Earth and Google Scholar (allowing users to search scientific, medical and technical journals) were launched,
and in 2011 Google Wallet was announced, this is a mobile application for wireless payments.
In 2013 a Google Tablet streaming device was launched for smart phone users.
Most major dictionaries now feature ‘google’ as a verb. The net worth for Larry Page and Sergey Brin is in the billions.
Got Any Ideas From This?
How about building a search engine with an attractive, quirky name promote it and then sell it to a major corporation.
Nowadays it’s quite easy to start your own search engine. Learn how it's done online, or you can outsource the entire task to a software developer and a web designer.
Do not quit no matter what. As the late Chet Holmes said in his book "The Ultimate Sales Machine" all it takes is pigheaded discipline and determination
No one would have believed that such a simple idea that turned its founders into multi-billionaires was actually rejected when they tried to sell it out in the beginning.