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Google Buys Garage Where Empire Began
The home where Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin first set up shop is seen in Menlo Park, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006. Internet search leader Google Inc. has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire, the Silicon Valley home where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world. The Mountain View-based company bought the 1,900-square-foot home in nearby Menlo Park from one of its one employees, Susan Wojcicki, who agreed to lease her garage for $1,700 per month because she wanted some help paying the mortgage. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Very cool. Good to see these guys (and others) maintaining some institutional memory (even if the institution is only eight years old ).
Where's the garage Newsvine started in? :-)
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#1 - Sun Oct 1, 2006 8:58 PM EDTWe didn't have enough money to rent a garage, so we worked out of my carport. Man, that first winter was chilly! ;)
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Haha!
I need to find a genious idea and a garage to start it in... anyone have an idea I can borrow? ;)
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Man, I've got tons of ideas. Unfortunately, they're all locked up in other people's patents. Maybe I can find a nice garage in China somewhere and just reverse engineer some of this stuff!
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Calvin: I could have sworn you guys started in a miniature horse stable… just a rumor, I suppose.
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very interesting... something that will go down in the history books
#6 - Mon Oct 2, 2006 8:59 AM EDTYeah, this is pretty cool. I'm glad they keep that personal connection...even if it cost them a million bucks. :-)
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#8 - Mon Oct 2, 2006 9:44 AM EDTI have a garage, but no ground-breaking ideas to fill it with. I would love to start something like this. It is amazing how some people just hit the nail on the head.
futurereach DoT org
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#9 - Mon Oct 2, 2006 9:49 AM EDTI wonder what that mutual friend / Brin's ex-girlfriend is doing now and what she thinks about dating a future billionaire
#10 - Mon Oct 2, 2006 10:03 AM EDTThere is a lesson to us all here...
Whatever you do, take it out of your own house. Working from home is often nonproductive. Even getting a garage or lof from a neighbor is better for effectivity.
Even better if the space is chilly as they say, while you are there you will probably work instead of lounge around..
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#11 - Mon Oct 2, 2006 1:49 PM EDTI know a Google employee, but I wasn't aware that I knew the Google employee! ;-)
The Mountain View-based company bought the 1,900-square-foot home in nearby Menlo Park from one of its one employees
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