From Garage to Global: 10 Inspiring Stories of World Famous Companies


2. Google

On September 7, 1998, a company opened its door in Menlo Park, CA. The door came with a remote control, as it was connected to the garage of a friend who sublet space to the new corporation's staff of three, which is how Google Inc. was commenced. Today Google is a colloquial term also often used as a common verb in our daily life. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin moved out of the dorm, officially included the Google name, and ended raising $1 million from a few investors.

For the five months Google worked out of Wojcicki's garage, Page and Brin exchanged between trifling with their search engine's now famous algorithm, soaking in the hot tub, and raiding the refrigerator for midnight snacks, a custom that may have stimulated Google's free-food policy for all its employees.

3. Mattel

After World War II, newly-married Ruth and Elliot Handler resolute to start a business out of the garage in their home at Southern California. Though Mattel is famous as a toy maker, the brand originally produced and sold picture frames. Soon after opening for business, Handler began building dollhouse furniture with the oddments left over from the picture frames.

They soon find out that the toy business was much more money-spinning than picture framing. The Handlers had little business understanding and even less capital, but the demographics of a baby boom, moreover a virtual toy less marketplace gave the couple an exclusive opportunity to carve out a position. The “Uke-A-Doodle,” a miniature plastic ukulele, was Mattel’s first hit toy in 1947. It proved to be an instant victory that fetched large orders.

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