Starting this Monday, the tech people around the world were abuzz with just one word and that is ‘Google’. Google’s strategic decision to form a parent company by name Alphabet and making Google as just a part of the company, came as a surprise to many, considering the stature of Google. People could hardly understand the reason of this move, as for many, Internet is Google, and vice-versa.
The indomitable legacy of Google for the last 20 years has been significant and certainly commendable. Two young engineers from Stanford University decide to solve a major problem and they ended up actually solving many queries of thousands and lakhs of people every day.
Google’s success today cannot be gauged by any means. It is completely the result of sheer hard work and determination of all the employees associated with the company spearheaded by Co-Founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Here is the list of some major highlights in the undisputed legacy of Google in the last 20 years.
1995: Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford University, where grad student Brin gives an aspiring student, Larry Page a tour of his college.
1996: The pair then beings their work of starting a new search engine for the Internet, which eventually evolved into Google.
1998: This year was big for Google, as it gets incorporated. Later it moved into Susan Wojcicki’s garage in Menlo Park, California.
1999: Larry Page and Sergey Brin shift Google to Mountain View, California, and hire the company’s first in-house chef to prepare meals for workers.
2001: Eric Schmidt is named CEO, with Page and Brin as presidents of products and technology.
2004: Months later, after introducing Gmail, Google holds its first public stock offering.
2006: Google acquires YouTube for $1.6 billion which is now valued at $80 billion.
2011: Larry Page becomes CEO, and Eric Schmidt becomes executive chairman.
2014: Google completes a controversial stock split that creates a new class of non-voting shares, cementing Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s control as major voting stockholders.
2015: Page announces creation of new holding company, Alphabet, and adding Google as one of its subsidiaries along with other core business and entities.
