Google founders were thought sell the company with 1,000,000 to

"We both make each other sick." Sergey Brin in the Economist magazine interview, recalled his first encounter with Larry page. Two Google founders of future poor first impression of each other.


"Access to Stanford University, I was too excited. To achieve that kind of ambition (venture capital) there is no better place than Stanford, I have been longing for Silicon Valley. "Larry has been said to the author of The Search- John Battelle.




In March 1995, Larry entered graduate school at Stanford University, where he met Sergey Brin. Sergey voluntary help newborn exploit weekend time to become familiar with the campus, had just arrived by Larry Stanford University environment is not adapted. He once recalled: "the beginning of everything scary. I always keep on complaining. "Larry harp was very disgusted by Sergey.

But two men from strangers become friends, these two people not like the most of the students in the campus, like reading novels, watching movies or listening to music, students on the campus in the future at that time to enter United States keen to exercise so-called upper-class society, play golf, and they do not think this is a good sport,it  pure blind delayed effort. They most love to do is to participate in a variety of science and technology fair, and exhibit a variety of new and cool technologies of curiosity.

They like the Internet, Sergey said: "when we browse the Internet, we did not see the horoscope, nor join dating websites. We are interested in is to search for information that can really affect people's lives. ”

During school, Sergey has a mania for will not reach the countertop – lock, his Stanford Alumni bulanen·Lante has been recalled: "he's a fantastic lock experts. "He was a good friend of memories they had conspired to sneak into the Dean's Office to modify credit, but does not seem to have taken place.

This skill has been used subsequently Sergey "right track", he and Larry's computers and servers in their postgraduate residence living room, which caused trouble for limited electricity load, wire and circuit breaker. Sergey successfully broke into the floor of the basement, reinstall the circuit breaker. Sergey has proudly recalls: "was fortunate, I have to unlock skills, so that we can enter there. ”

"Great Peng day with the wind, soaring 90,000 miles. "Encounter with Larry, Sergey has abundant energy are useless, they began exploring way of network search engine.

Larry and Sergey are ready for their search engine a name, initially ready to adopt the name is "What Box", Chinese can be translated as "Pandora". But they then found it sounds like "wet box" (Wet Box), it sounds like a porn website, so they dumped the name.

One day, Larry through the United States of the mathematics and the imagination of the mathematician Edward kasner, 1938 Edward mentioned in the book are ready for a huge digital--10 when doing hundreds of party names, he is 9 years old nephew Milton's comment: "such a large number, had to use a strange names Googol is not available. "Edward has thus adopted the name. For decades, the term as an uncommon mathematical terms unknown.

Larry liked the word, because it can express the vast network and its powerful search features, and was prepared to use its search engine and the name of the company. Sergey also liked, but he is a little worried about the direct use of this name would lead to brand name attribution, so they amended it to "Google".


Another version of the origin of the term on Google was: Larry and Sergey to be directly "Googol", but they forget exactly how to spell it, but they misspelled, then enrolled in the "Google" domain names when they found such as, registration has been completed. They in Zhoushan, follows.

Almost $ 1 million sold

In order to carry out search operations, Larry and Sergey three credit cards maxed out, purchased a number of hardware. With rapid increases in user traffic, database sizes rapidly expanded. Their hardware equipment was inadequate, but no money to add devices, so they tried every means to argue about little details, buy their own parts and Assembly equipment. For the owner of the Stanford University computer systems when Charlie orgish said: "in order to save money, Larry is willing to search all over the world. ”


Under desperating, drilling their school's warehouse to find no one claimed the computer, and then take off the gloves away. Sergey had been embarrassed to defend their behavior: "we suspect that if a computer's owner did not immediately take them away, they prove that they are in no hurry, we borrow to use. ”

During the stretched Larry and Sergey had wanted to sell their search engine technology.

In March 1998, at a Chinese restaurant called Oriental Gourmand, they met and DEC the company's baoluo·fulaie pedicle. Paul was their mentor at Stanford University, is DEC company one of the designers of the AltaVista Search engine. Larry and Sergey hoped that mentors can purchase leading orchid grower, DEC company spends $ 1 million to buy their search engine technology.

Paul promised to come back to the company for their kind words from a few words. After a few weeks, Larry and Sergey have been DEC's echo, they said it was not prepared to buy Google. Paul DEC company does not want to rely on outsiders on technology. "Those management engineering technology sector less willing to externally import, they have a very strong sense of a strictly guarded attitude. ”

DEC is a veteran of minicomputer manufacturer, 60 of the last century, DEC has been leading the wave of computer miniaturization development first. Unfortunately, the late mid 90, DEC has been well advanced.

If you buy Google's search engine, and DEC might be able to back the search line, Google's history will be overwritten. Shortly after Google missed merger opportunities, DEC also collapsed, Compaq merger.

Larry and Sergey have also found another search Infoseek Corporation. It is worth mentioning that, subsequently starting a hundred Li worker in this company. The result, founder of Infoseek Corporation shidifu·jixier then let them go away!

Author feiaoduoer · Dostoevsky's said: "almost all creators and geniuses in the early career was as a fool. ”

To a locked door of Larry repeatedly say to yourself: "do not mind. We have to continuously improve it, maybe one day it will become a company, perhaps it would be a great study. ”

In August 1998, the change around the Larry and Sergey met Sun co-founder Andy bechtolsheim and the famous investor, let Andy slightly surprised that the two young men do not have any commercial specifications. But reading countless people Andy feel different from the ordinary people of these two young people, he patiently listening to their explanations. Andy later recalled: this is the best idea I've heard over the years, I want to be able to become a member of. ”

Andy said: "Oh, we can discuss a number of issues. Why don't I just give you open cheque? "He asked how much money they need, they say around $ 50,000.

Andy believes that this amount is not enough, he gave them issuing a check for $ 100,000. Andy admitted: "in my vision, they may be able to search to attract millions of users, and then use this traffic to make money. I didn't expect it to develop to this day so much. No one can want. ”

Larry got cheques are very excited, to celebrate, to eat a meal together he and Sergey "feast"--Burger King hamburger. Larry admitted that fast food is healthy food, but it's color, flavor and nostalgia, and cheap.

Cheque lying in the Larry's desk for two weeks until they complete the formalities, company bank account was opened before being recorded.

Larry and Sergey then prepared to rent an office location. Then worked in Intel Corporation's sushan·woxiji just bought a House, part hope for rent to students, good ease repayment pressure. She believed that Larry and Sergey are good tenants, so for $ 1700 a month's rent to their garage, three rooms and two bathrooms, there is a washing machine in the House, there are water heaters. She recalls: "we were thinking that they will stay there during the day, and we happened to go out to work during the day, so we do not feel their presence, but did not expect is that they where continuous working 24 hours a day. "Sushan sisters Anna and later became the wife of Sergey.

"Star with wide Hirano, moon Chung River flow. "Larry and Sergey packed well, prepared to hold a Party to celebrate the birth of the company. They didn't anticipate opening day, an unexpected visitor came and left a popular story in the history of venture capital.