Google buys garage where it all started
October 1st, 2006 . by joe
I think this is a slippery slope. Today they buy a house in Menlo Park. Tomorrow, they buy the moon! (Insert evil laugh here.)
Internet search leader Google Inc. has added a landmark to its rapidly expanding empire — the Silicon Valley home where co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented a garage eight years ago as they set out to change the world.
The Mountain View-based company bought the 1,900-square-foot home in nearby Menlo Park from one of its own employees, Susan Wojcicki, who had agreed to lease her garage for $1,700 per month because she wanted some help paying the mortgage.
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