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Google - Our History in Depth

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Post by srhngpr »

finnh wrote: post #7

Lot of firsts in 1999: First dog First chef First non-engineering hire First press release First female engineer seems to be missing...

They may not have had a first female engineer, but in their first 21 employees, 6 of which were females.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-first-20-employees-wh...

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Post by finnh »

srhngpr wrote: post #11
finnh wrote: post #7

Lot of firsts in 1999: First dog First chef First non-engineering hire First press release First female engineer seems to be missing...

They may not have had a first female engineer, but in their first 21 employees, 6 of which were females. Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-first-20-employees-wh...

I was making a little joke - I thought it was widely known that Marissa Mayer was Google's first female engineer.

Source: her wikipedia page, numerous articles.

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Post by jacquesm »

eitally wrote: post #5

I wonder if they're old enough -- of prescient enough -- yet to realize they should probably have a staff historian.

Better to have others write your history than yourself. Less hubris that way. History has it's own way to deal with the notability criterion: everything that's not notable will be forgotten.

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Post by ateevchopra »

This is really great ! Especially all the April fool days Google gave us.

It reminds me of one of my friend. He had to explain "How Google works" in the class. He accidentally read half of this prank:

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

and explained it in the class. Everyone enjoyed !

But the thing to be noticed most was that most of the students, including the reached believed ! !

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Post by yid »

One interesting thing that stood out in terms of Google-the-startup: they incorporated on Sep 4, 1998 and raised $25 million in June 1999, and made their first acquisition in February 2001. The traction they must have been able to show must have staggering.

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Post by sakis »

sksk wrote: post #8

Strange that Gmail is not mentioned in 2004 unless I am missing it! They mention Chat for Gmail but not Gmail?

As far as I remember, GMail was announced on April 1st, 2004 and was considered by most (all?) an April Fool's joke.
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