The Investment Offered

When Sun Microsystems co-founder, Andy Bechtolsheim, invested in Google with a $100,000 check made out to Google Inc, the check sat in Larry Page's desk drawer for two weeks while he and Sergey Brin went and created a company called Google Inc.

Susan’s Garage

The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. When Page and Brin needed an office for Google, Susan Wojcicki rented her garage to the two Stanford students for $1,700 a month. On top of helping her with the mortgage, Wojcicki became a top Google executive, and introduced her sister to Sergey who wound up marrying her.

Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee

Also Read: 8 Real Reasons Why Apple Is Better Than Samsung, Google And Microsoft and Bill Gates Reveals His Biggest Regret