Google's original headquarters was an underground garage.

Okay, this is already very untestable.

It’s just what the two founders, Larry and Sergey, said in a talk show interview.

It was only said once and was not discussed again.

But in reality.

Many of the more successful companies in Silicon Valley started out.

But a lot of the headquarters is really in the garage.

Because in the United States, most single-family homes have garages.

Many times these garages are not used because the car can be parked directly outside, which is more convenient to use.

But it's a pity that the garage is abandoned there.

There are many landlords who choose to rent out their garages.

Because the environment of garages is generally not very good.

Therefore, the rent is relatively cheap.

Cheap rents are not only attractive to those wage earners with little financial strength.

At the same time, it is also unusually attractive to start-up companies with little financial strength.

This is also the reason why Internet companies choose to work in garages during their early stages.

After achieving certain results, Google of course moved out of the garage long ago.

Their previous headquarters was in Mountain View, California.

Mountain View, California, is also part of Silicon Valley, just next door to Palo Alto.

At the beginning of this month, at the request of the largest shareholder Abel.

Google has moved its headquarters to Palo Alto.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who are still in power, have no complaints about this.

First, Google was about to move its headquarters, and the original offices were no longer enough.

It's just that they originally planned to stay in Mountain View and find another office building in Mountain View.

Now it's not too far to move to Palo Alto.

It's only a dozen miles.

You can get there by car in half an hour.

Secondly, after Google moved to Palo Alto.

The rent here is cheaper than in Mountain View, but the other conditions are similar.

What's more important is that the office area is very large, and it can accommodate even Google if it expands five to ten times.

This makes Larry Page and Sergey Brin feel that Google will not need to move companies for at least the next ten years.

But the two of them already regretted it a little.

I regret selling so many shares to Abel last year.

Because even they didn't expect that Abel could get so many Google shares in such a short period of time.

In addition to their hands, Abel received 20% of Google shares.

They didn't expect that Abel could actually get almost 13% of the shares besides them.

As a result, Abel's shares now reach about 33%.

He is now the largest shareholder of Google.

It’s almost the same as the two founders combined.

Fortunately, Abel made a promise to them.

As long as the two of them don't offend Abel's interests.

The voting rights of Abel shares can always be given to them for use.

This allows the two co-founders to still firmly control Google.

Saying goodbye to Buffett, Abel came to Palo Alto.

It's already four o'clock in the afternoon.

Inside Google's newly relocated headquarters.

Abel met Larry and Sergey.

And not long ago, Abel recommended Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Novell, to the two co-founders.

After investigating Eric Schmidt for a month and talking to Schmidt many times.

Co-founders agree Eric Schmidt to become Google's new chief executive

executive officer.

Today is Eric Schmidt’s seventh day in office.

In a conference room at Google's new headquarters.

Abel met with current Google executives, including the two co-founders.

At this time, Google had already made profits for the first time two months ago.

In addition, the company has approximately two hundred employees.

The company's search engine currently occupies about 85% of the market share.

Previously this share was around 60%.

The reason for such a large increase.

This is because at the end of last year, Yahoo decided to introduce Google's search engine into its portal as its only search engine.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

Although Yahoo was in the Nasdaq bubble last year, it can be said that its vitality was severely damaged.

But during this period, it was still the only Internet giant that could compete with Microsoft.

At this time, Google was just a little brother to Yahoo.

Yahoo has another idea to acquire this younger brother.

Maybe I want to intimidate Google in the future, so I threw out such a delicious thing.

Abel has known the two co-founders of Google for a long time.

Abel also has no interest in its other senior executives.

The only person Abel is interested in is Eric Schmidt, the CEO.

In parallel time and space.

Eric Schmidt served as Google's CEO for ten years.

These ten years were also the key ten years that established Google's future status as one of the world's Internet hegemons.

Before joining Google, Eric Schmidt had twenty years of successful experience.

Novell under his leadership has developed very well.

Even after he left novell.

This company also wanted to ask him to serve as its chairman as well.

In addition, Eric Schmidt is also a member of Apple's board of directors.

For these reasons, Abel proposed to let Eric Schmidt serve as Google CEO.

In the original time trajectory.

Eric Schmidt will also arrive in a few months.

Abel thought it would be better to propose it himself.

In this way, Eric Schmidt will also owe him a favor.

"Hello, Eric."

"Hello, Mr. Smith!"

The two people shook hands directly in the conference hall.

Abel's ability to manage Eric Schmidt.

He also values ​​​​his ability to develop high-tech companies.

And Eric Schmidt, why not be curious about Abel, the new Wall Street giant?
To be continued...