3. Overview:
Name Google Inc. (since 1998)
Type Subsidiary
Founded September 4, 1998
Founders Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Key people Sundar Pichai (CEO)
Number of employees 139,995 (2021)
Parent company Alphabet Inc.
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• Larry Page and Sergey Brin were PhD students at Stanford
University in California
• In 1997, they started a project at backrub (search engine).
• It is called backrub because it uses web’s back link.
• In 1998, they develop a search engine named as
Google(misspelled from a mathematical term googol means
1 followed by 100 zeros).
8. • First workshop was based in
the garage of Susan Wojcicki
in Menlo Park, California.
• Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford,
was hired as the first employee.
9. • The initial investors(Bechtolsheim, Cheriton), friends, and family Google raised a Capital of around $1,00,000.
• Initial investors:
Bechtolsheim Cheriton Jeff Bezos Ram Shriram
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11. • In 1997, Page and Brin offer Yahoo! to buy Backrub for US$1
million. But Yahoo refused it. Yahoo! was the giant and
Google(backrub) was the tiny ant at that time.
• In 2002, Yahoo! tried to buy Google for US$3
billion when it realized how quickly Google was
growing
• Page and Brin asked for 5 billion US$ which was refused by
Yahoo.
12. Google as a Company
5.97 B shares
Types of
Shareholders
Class A 1 vote per share 86.20 USD
Class B
10 votes per
share
Larry Page and
Sergey Brin
owned 85.9%
Class C No vote 88.26 USD
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14. Total eightoutages.
Year Services Failed Time Reason
2013 (August) All services at that time 5 min -----
2014 (January) 10 : 55 am to 11 : 30 Bugin a software which tells
other system what to do
2018 (October) YouTube 1 hour 2 min Network[503] problem
2020 (August) 6 hour -----
2020 (November) YouTube 12 : 20 to 04 : 13 -----
2020 (December) Almost all services 11 : 45 to 01 : 00 Reduction in Capacity
2022 (August) ----- Software update
2022 (October) ----- Server down
31. • Automatic drone delivery system.
• Google’s wing, self and auto pilot plane.
32. • A driverless car which can drive on its own.
• Just address is needed.
• Waymo is also a subsidiary company of
alphabet. And google is working on it.
