In September 1997 Sergey Brin and Larry page – then-unknown graduate students at Stanford University launched a small project called Google. To create their own company they started in a garage.
Money, by the way, the entrepreneurs did not have much – they had to literally beg for the first 100 thousand dollars needed to run the project, the famous American businessman Andy Bechtolsheim. Years later the money was paid back in millions of times!
Today Google is not just search engine (the search engine is celebrating its birthday on 7 and 27 September), and the state in the state, which employs more than 30 thousand people. For example, the company manufactures mobile phones, is building a global network of balloons that distribute Internet in third world countries, creates unmanned vehicles, is engaged in biotechnology and medicine. The capitalization of the project Sergey Brin and Larry page has exceeded 500 billion dollars.
The self-driving car Google
Using such balloons an American company distributing Internet in Indonesia
Google’s use of airships to get cheap electricity from wind
All of this success story it is interesting that in just 19 years, two young people literally out of nothing he created the company, the cost of which is ten times larger than the Belarusian state budget. At the same time in the heart of Europe the state is the third decade of trying to revive a rusty Soviet enterprises, wood processing and agriculture. And spends this amount much more notorious 100 thousand dollars.
