#TwoIsBetterThanOne

Companies that you love and look up to are often products of more than one mastermind. This is because entrepreneurs operating solely may not be as capable, as visionary and as intuitive as two entrepreneurs working and growing a business together. Here are four revolutionary brands that became big thanks to the expertise and support of two co-founders:

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Google

Two Is Better Than One-Google

Google’s story begins way back in 1995 when Larry Page was considering Stanford University for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around campus.

In their first meeting, Larry and Sergey disagreed about everything; but by the following year, their friendship blossomed when Brin agreed to help Page with his research project on backlinks. And so, without them realising at the time, they began working on a search engine that would fetch them thousands of dollars in the coming months.

BackRub essentially used a web page’s backlinks to determine the page’s importance and relevance to a search query. The search page was kept simple due to the lack of a web developer but they were challenged to find enough computing power to handle queries as the tool became increasingly popular.

Soon after, they changed the name to “Google” – a play on the mathematical expression for 1 followed by a hundred zeros that also aptly reflected Larry and Sergey’s mission to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”.

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Although they were working from their dorm rooms, by mid-1998, Google was getting 10,000 search hits per day and catching the attention of Silicon Valley investors.

In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote them a check for $1,00,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With the new investment, the team upgraded their workspace and set-up their first office in a friend’s garage in California. In August 2004, the company went public with an IPO and raised $1.67 billion!

Larry and Sergey always preferred to keep things colourful and unconventional – from their first server made out of Lego to their currently famous Googleplex office! The two founders’ passion for digital and love for the unconventional make them the perfect duo for leading this visionary company.

Google currently has more than 88,000 employees in over 50 countries and has developed over 200 products worldwide.

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Kartik Mittal

SEO Manager & Corporate Trainer

Updated on: Dec 31, 2024

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Kartik Mittal

SEO Manager & Corporate Trainer

Kartik is a certified digital marketer with a passion for imparting knowledge as a digital marketing trainer. Being a Ex-Performics he specializes in SEO (Search Engine Optimization), ASO (App Store Optimization), and Website Development.