Google is 10 years old this weekend (Sunday 7th September to be exact), and how far they’ve come since Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated a company called ‘Google’ whilst attending Stanford University, California as undergraduates.
Today, Google employs over 17,000 employees and is still hiring at a rate of 100 new employees a week. They are known in every country across the world, and are currently generating $1.25 billion in clear profit every three months!
I seriously doubt that the two students ever imagined things would be quite as successful as this - however, it is reassuring to know that they are (or at least appear to be) refreshingly non-corporate. They have often stated their belief that the big G “can make money without doing evil”.
