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GOOGLEBrin and Page pitched their creation to Exciteand Yahoo! as well, but neither was interested. Buttheir meeting with Yahoo! cofounder David Filo wasnot completely fruitless. Filo suggested that if theybelieved they had a special product with Google,they should considertaking a break fromSILICON VALLEYtheir studies andStanford University is located in themiddle of Silicon Valley, the area south of launching the businessthe San Francisco Bay area. In the 1940s and themselves.1950s, Stanford’s dean of engineering, FrederickTerman, encouraged Stanford graduatesThey decidedto remain in the area and start companies. He not to make anyconvinced the university to develop hundreds major decisions andof acres of land to build offices and researchfocused on improvingfacilities, known as an industrial park. StanfordResearch Park was established, and it Google for its users atnurtured high-tech firms such as Hewlett- Stanford. They sentPackard, one of the world’s largest computertechnology companies. Aided by some of the out e-mail surveysmost brilliant minds in the industry, powerful asking users forcompanies in the fields of radio, television, feedback. The resultsmilitary electronics, and computers evolvedthere.prompted the duo toBy the 1970s, the area was bloomingwith semiconductor and computeradd a small summaryfor each search result,companies. Silicon is an essential ingredientin semiconductors. So many companies dealingwith semiconductors sprang up around usability and creatingimproving Google’sStanford University that the region becamemore loyal users.known as Silicon Valley.42
BUSINESS VENTUREDaily searches reached more than 10,000. Asdemand for Google grew, the team needed moreprocessing power and more memory. They continuedto acquire computers when they could and eventuallyreached the limits of three credit cards buying diskspace. They were running out of hope that someonewould want to buy Google. Brin and Page began torealize they would probably have to start their ownbusiness if they wanted Google to expand.AN ANGEL INVESTORStarting a business requires large amounts of money.Wealthy individuals who invest their own moneyin a start-up company are called angel investors. Inexchange for start-up funds, they are usually grantedan ownership portion in the company. If the start-updoes well, these investors often make a lot of money.Brin and Page turned to computer scienceprofessor David Cheriton for help finding investors.In August 1998, Cheriton introduced the men toAndy Bechtolsheim, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.Bechtolsheim was the vice president of CiscoSystems, a technology company. He was interestedin what the students described to him. Bechtolsheimliked that Google solved a simple problem of finding43
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GOOGLEwhen he told Newsweek in 2004
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GOOGLETIMELINE2004 2004 2004Google
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GOOGLEADDITIONAL RESOURCESSELECTED
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GOOGLEABOUT THE AUTHORSusan E. Hame
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