15 Years of Googling; 15 Never-Known Facts


#13 Google Acquisitions

Google has acquired an average of one company every week since 2010. In 2010, Google Energy made its first investment in a renewable energy project by NextEra Energy Resources. In the same year it purchased Global IP Solutions, a Norway-based company that provides web-based teleconferencing and other related services. And in May 2010, Google announced it had also closed the acquisition of the mobile ad network AdMob. The acquisitions were then followed by acquiring Android, Motorola Mobility, Quickoffice and many others.

#12 Page and Brin wanted to sell Google for $1 million but it was offered with only $750,000

They went to Excite CEO George Bell and offered to sell it to him for $1 million. He rejected the offer and later criticized Vinod Khosla, one of Excite's venture capitalists, after he negotiated Brin and Page down to $750,000. On June 7, 1999, a $25 million round of funding was announced, with major investors including the venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital.

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