Technology History | Google — The Garage at 232 Santa Margarita Avenue
· 1998-9
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Technology History | Google — The Garage at 232 Santa Margarita Avenue
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People treat Google as a Mountain View campus that arrived already named Alphabet.
The first paid rooms that could hold the servers were here, in the two-car garage of a four-bedroom house at 232 Santa Margarita Avenue in Menlo Park, in September 1998.
Susan Wojcicki had just bought the house after her MBA. She rented the garage to two Stanford graduate students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, for about $1,700 a month to help with the mortgage. They had incorporated Google Inc. that month. Andy Bechtolsheim had written them a $100,000 check made out to a company that did not yet exist.
The garage held sofas, a washing machine, a bike, and the first production machines. Neighbours remembered people sitting in that garage an awful lot. By the time the company bought the house in 2006 to keep it as living history, the search engine that started on this lot was already the default way a continent found things.
Wojcicki became employee number 18. The house is still standing, lemon yellow and white. It is not the Googleplex. It is the first address the corporation paid rent on.
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