Businesses That Started In A Garage
4. A Friend Let Larry Page And Sergey Brin Start Google In Her Garage
When Susan Wojcicki bought a new home in Silicon Valley in the mid-90s, she realized that she would need some help paying the mortgage as living in the area was more expensive than she thought it was going to be.
She decided to rent out her garage to Sergey Brin and Larry Page as they were just starting out in their business journey, and they, too, needed somewhere cheap to rent.
The company that the pair were working for was Google, and they didn’t stay in the Garage for long.
Wojcicki was working for another technology startup at the time but was offered a job with her tenants as she became Google’s 16th employee and is now CEO of YouTube.
Since being founded in 1998, Google has seen a meteoric rise as one of the biggest technology firms in the world…something Brin and Page never thought would be possible as they were tempted to sell the company for $1 million in the early 2000s.
