How To Write A Google Interview An Entrepreneur

I chose to read a book about entrepreneurship rather than interview an entrepreneur. The book I read is entitled The Story of Google. The book starts with a college student, Larry Page, touring Stanford University. While there, his guide was Sergey Brin. The two of them very quickly became great friends although it did not always seem as such. They would constantly have intellectual battles about anything and everything. The two of them began a project for a doctoral thesis. The plan was to download the entirety of what is on the internet and find a way to search it using links. Page decided to use a ranking system to determine the relevance of links and called it “PageRank”. In 1997, the two first launched their search engine and called it

Page and Brin at the time did not know how to spell googol and had the misspelling of “Google”. They ran quickly to see if the URL was available and it was. They registered their site as google.com. The next day Anderson sees “Google” written on the white board and writes, “It’s supposed to be g-o-o-g-o-l.” After making it on the internet, they dropped out from Stanford and continued work on Google. Page and Brin rented a garage from a friend to house operations in 1998. By 1999, they outgrew their garage office, handling more than 500,000 searches a day, and had to move to an office building in Palo Alto. The plan was to make a great search technology and license it to someone for a large sum of money. That proved harder than they thought so Page and Brin decided to continue bettering their website. They had to seek extra money from somewhere and went to the two most established firms for high tech companies. Both loved the idea and were willing to give them the twenty-five million dollars that they were looking for, but the partners wanted the two firms to invest jointly so they did not lose control of the

Shortly after the two companies came to an agreement, but required that Brin and Page get a seasoned executive to help them with the business portion of things. At the end of 1999, Google had to move out of their Palo Alto office and go to Mountain View, California. The move was required because the offices became too cramped again. Before 2000, Google was averaging over seven million searches a day. In 2000, Google was in need of more money again and looked into selling targeted advertisements. The ads were only text-based ads to prevent user distraction and were sold on a per click basis. Every time someone clicked on the ad, Google would get five cents from the company who posted the ad. In 2001, Google had set out to make searching more convenient on mobile devices. At the end of 2001, Google posted their first profit of seven million dollars for the year. Page and Brin had not yet hired a CEO by this time, and were still required to find one. They had met Eric Schmidt in 2000 and neither of them were interested in each other. Page and Brin did not want to hire him and he did not want to work for them. In August of 2001, they hired him on after their previous meeting where they really hit it