Bangalore: Larry Page’s leadership led Google from a mere search engine provider to provider of myriad other products from mobile OS, to their very own hardware products to cloud computing services. Google is now the second most valuable company with brand value of $107,857 million, according to the survey by BrandZ and Millward Brown Optimor, who calculate and rank companies based on their global value.

While Larry Page steered Google, the company he co-founded, towards a huge success, there are other founders, whose initial vigor catapulted the companies to great heights, but then they become the very reason of company’s ruin. Read on to know 8 big companies that got ruined by the hands of their founders as compiled 24/7 Wall St.

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