15 Years of Googling; 15 Never-Known Facts
#11 Google’s in house chef lead a team of 150 employees
Google hired its first in-house chef, Charlie Ayers, in November 1999, when the company had just 40 employees. His work there was widely publicized in the media, and David Vise's corporate history The Google Story contains an entire chapter about him called "Charlie's Place." By the time he left Google in 2006, Ayers and his team of five chefs and 150 employees were serving 4,000 daily lunches and dinners in 10 cafes across the company's headquarters campus in Mountain View, CA.
#10 Google IPO turned many of its employees into millionaires
Around 1,000 of Google's employees became millionaires when the company went public in 2004. One of those millionaires was masseuse Bonnie Brown, who worked at the company giving back rubs for $450 a week back in 1999.
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