Jewish boy, professional son
Born on March 26, 1973 in Michigan, USA. Larry Page was fortunate to be raised in a Jewish family, whose parents were both pioneers in the computer industry. Larry's father, Covicto Page, is a professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at the University of Michigan. And his mother taught computer systems at the Limanrich School. Larry's father is considered one of the pioneering scientists of the computer industry at that time.
As a corollary, when computers were a new thing in the 1970s, young Larry had a very early exposure to these products. A series of parents' messy computer devices scattered throughout the house became Larry's toys, stimulating the boy's curiosity as well as the fire of his passion for technology.
Recalling that time, Larry said he buried his head in technology items and books and magazines, tinkering with the working mechanism of high-tech products. Influenced by parents' creative and learning spirit, Larry became one of the rare children to do homework on Word software at that time when he was in elementary school.
At the age of 12, Larry read a biography of Nicola Tesla, an inventor genius who died in debt. Nicola Tesla's sad ending touched Larry and it was his motivation. Larry not only wants to use technology to change the world, but also wants to use his business knowledge to implement technology ideas more broadly. “I realize that inventions are not necessarily useful. You have to know how to get them out into the world and get people to know and use it.”
First inventions
Entering the university environment, Larry continued to shine with an impressive academic record at Michigan school. He has always appeared in the school's outstanding performance groups as well as in the school press thanks to his good achievements in the technology field. Right from this period, Larry invented many new projects such as a new ink printer system, the premise for a Lego toy product printing system later. Larry is also a proponent of improving the school bus system and many other technology projects while still in school. Originally from the family, he completed his PhD in technology at Stanford University and it was here that Larry began to have the idea of the platform for searching on the Internet through algorithms.
In January 1996, Larry and Sergey Brin embarked on the first search engine project called BackRup in the Stanford dormitory. Together with Sergey's math expertise, the duo created the Pagerank algorithm to rank search results based on the properties of links. This technology helped form the basis of the most powerful search engine in the world at that time, and was launched on Stanford University's private network in August 1996. Since then, the journey has been built. so the world's largest search engine empire began.
According to CNBC, it's a little-known fact that Larry and Sergey didn't initially like each other when they met at Stanford University in 1995. They often argued about all sorts of things, but the interesting thing lies in in that, both of them argued fiercely based on solid arguments towards which point of view is correct, thereby supplementing each other's knowledge, not arguing for ego.
Birth of an empire
Realizing the potential of the project, Larry and Sergey Brin decided to start a business in 1998 with the name Google. This name is derived from the mathematical phrase Googol which means the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, implying that their mission is to create an infinite number of resources on the website, and the core value. The core of the project is to show everyone that it is necessary to organize the huge amount of information on the internet scientifically in order for users to find the fastest and most accurate answers.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin started a company called Google in the garage of Susan Wojcicki - who later became the CEO of YouTube. They received a $100,000 investment from SunMicro System co-founder Endi BacktoHem. Because they are pioneers in Internet search, Larry's products have attracted great attention from experts and investors.
In 1999 Google had 500,000 hits a day and the corporate office moved from a rental garage to a bike shop in California with eight employees. From here on Larry and Sergey Brin end the difficult period of having to run everything on their own
Miraculous development
For a long time before Google became famous, Yahoo was the leading search engine on the internet. When Google began to assert its position and gradually dominate the market, the company cooperated and became Yahoo's default search engine in 2000.
In the summer of 2002 Yahoo tried to buy Google for $3 billion, but Google rejected the deal because the founders believed Google's value to be at least $5 billion.
Later that year Google launched Google News, a news content aggregation service that promised to change the way digital media is published and distributed on the web.
In February 2004, Yahoo stopped shaking hands with Google and set up their own search engine, but it was not as successful as expected.
In 2001 Googlers began developing an email system designed to address the company's growing internal communications and storage needs.
On April 1, 2004 Gmail was released to the public with 1GB of storage and advanced search capabilities that overcame limitations commonly found on the popular competitor's email products at the time. . While the email application of that time only provided users with a few MB of storage space
From an initial investment of $ 100,000 , the company 's products have yielded huge profits that led to the company opening its shares to the public after 5 years . Google valued its stock at $85 per share, bringing in $1.67 billion and at that time the company's market value exceeded $27 billion.
After quietly acquiring Android for $50 million in 2005 Google released Android on the T-mobile G1/HTC Dream In the early days of its release, Android was considered a white mouse operating system. There are many manufacturers that choose Android as the operating system for their products, but Motorola's Zoin line. Samsung Galaxy phones and HTC Ivo phones.
Also in 2005 Google first introduced Maps with the slogan "Maps can be useful and fun". At the time of launch, Google Map only had a web version that showed users the way, and a zoomable map with location information of famous businesses such as hotels and restaurants.
In June 2005 Google Earth application satellite version of earth map was also released. In 2009 Google rolled out turn-by-turn GPS navigation for the Maps smartphone app.
After surpassing major companies such as MicroSoft, Viacom and Yahoo, Google acquired Youtube for $ 1.65 billion. This transaction is beneficial for both parties. Google has won the battle for online video traffic. Meanwhile, Youtube, an almost unknown brand at the time, had access to the huge resources of Google.
Besides that, Google also launched Adsense which allows website owners to place ads in context and targeting specific targets. Google once again solidified its dominance in the advertising industry with the $3.1 billion acquisition of Double Click.
Google Chrome launched in September 2008 in just 4 short years, Google's browser has grown rapidly to beat both Fire Fox and Internet Explore.
Ten years later, Chrome is the world's dominant web browser with about 60% of the global market share and that is also the biggest driving force behind the successful development of Google Search.
In 2011 Google took another big gamble when it agreed to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion and under Google Motorola launched the MotoX phone in 2013. The smartphone was installed assembled in the United States provides users with personalized options and an intuitive interface . When MotoX 2nd generation in 2014 Google agreed to sell Motorola to Lenovo
Social network dream and restructuring decision
It can be said that Google was very reckless when challenging Facebook because this social network is in a period of explosive development. Google rolled out Google+ and replaced Google Buzz's Micro Blogging tool, but unlike Facebook's request-to-join policy that just sign up for an account with a valid email, Google+ worked as a network. social invites only . Here you can share photos, links and start hangout conversations with your circle of friends. However, keeping the policy that only invited people can join makes Google + more difficult to reach users than Facebook even though Google has restructured Google + many times.
Larry Page decided to restructure Google into a new company called Alphabet in August 2015. The reorganization of Google at this point included the restructuring of both the Calico life extension project and the funds. corporate investments into separate companies with separate CEOs. In addition, Sundar Pichai – an Indian information technology engineer was also appointed as CEO of Google. And the fact has proven that this is a wise decision.
Since the restructuring, new companies such as Verily, Waymo and Wing have been launched and focused only on the separate membranes that make up the collective success of Google.
To celebrate a new milestone in the company's development, Google released a new Google logo on September 1, 2015. Along with the acquisition and merger Google is growing into a large corporation. business in all fields. Statistics show that Google.com is the most visited website in the world as well as the number 1 global search engine today. In 2018 Starzita figures show that Google is now Alphabet with revenue of $ 39.12 billion and nearly 99,000 full-time employees worldwide.
Larry Page – ambitious "alien"
As Google's main business continued to thrive, Larry Page bet more and more on new technologies. Digestible Nanoparticles, Internet Hot Air Balloons, Future-Changing Technologies. The Google Ech Lab is where Google is developing self-driving cars, high-altitude wind turbines, and hot air balloons that are released into the stratosphere to spread the Internet around the world.
Inspired by the image of manager Alan Mulally - former CEO of Ford Motor Company and currently the newest member of the board of Google. Larry Page pushed the giant Google forward while transforming it to fit his macro vision. He restructured the top positions, cut a lot of products twice, combined the rest, and relied on engineers to simplify.
With a solid management hand, he pushed the whole company to focus on mobile first. Google is more powerful than ever. The company is always expanding its core business to include search engine, advertising, maps, gmail, Chrome apps, youtube, Android, and more. Every area of Google's business is thriving and entering every corner of your computer.
Today, Apple considers Google its number one competitor, but companies like Amazon, Facebook, MicroSoft, Yahoo, and a long list of less tech-savvy companies all share a common competitor, Google. According to Zon Batle, an entrepreneur and author of Thesearch, a book about the company in its early years, I don't think we've ever seen a company like Google in the tech world
Google's business success allowed Larry Page to invest more heavily in key areas of Google's business and even in far-flung ventures. “I used to argue this with Steve Jobs and he always said you guys do too many things,” said Larry. Although this formula works for Apple, Google has a completely different vision. “We want to have a bigger impact on the world by doing more.”
Google has significantly expanded its joint venture units. Invest in hundreds of startups, act as a guiding arm for new ideas that arise outside the Google complex. Google Plex acquired Net for $3.2 billion to pursue its dream of a fully automated home. The same company has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Calico, an independent biotech company nurtured by Google and managed by former ZennaTex CEO Art Levinson to fight the aging process. The company has already started selling contact lenses to help control sugar levels and Glass , a virtual reality headset . However, this product was met with indifference as well as ridicule by consumers. And was declared dead in early 2015.
Google's original mission was to organize the world's information, making it useful and accessible to the world. Today this vision has been narrowed down a bit. Page wants the company he co-founded to continue to change the world in the most unimaginable ways. And it is the combination of Page's big goals as well as Google's good financial results that has made Page voted Entrepreneur of the Year by Fortune magazine 2014.
Many people think that Google's far-fetched efforts are just a pipe dream, but when the company first revealed the development of self-driving cars in 2010, a number of other companies really considered the idea. this seriously. Just four years later, everything changed. The auto industry has spent billions of dollars on this technology in the hope of catching up with Google. This is a prime example of how Page has pushed the world around him towards his own vision of the future. “The breadth and breadth of what Page is doing is astounding,” said Ben HoroWitz of financial investment firm Endrisen HoroWitz. We haven't seen a business leader like it since the days of Thomas Edison with the letter Y or David BackUs with HP.
Shocking departure
But the development path of Google also marks the heavy penalties that authorities in many countries have issued
In 2017, the European Union hit Google with a record $2.9 billion antitrust fine for allegedly prioritizing its shopping service in online search results.
In 2019, the company celebrated its 21st birthday with colorful confetti on its homepage, and opened a 21% discount on products in Europe.
However, this also becomes a sad memory in Google's history when the two company's co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, decided to resign. Replacing them is an already well-known name – Sundar Pichai, who is the CEO of Google as well as Alphabet. Despite their resignation, Larry Page and Sergey Brin remain committed to participating in Google and Alphabet's activities. Accordingly, the two Stanford alumni who founded this trillion-dollar empire will still serve as board members and will regularly attend meetings with Sundar Pichai.
Over 2 decades of establishment and development, Google has become an indispensable part for Internet users. With what has been done and created, it is certain that Google will develop even more in the future to maintain its giant position and especially assert its level in the new technology era.
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