Built For Success: Google

Product Description

On August 19, 2004, at 9.30am, Larry Page rang the opening bell at the NASDAQ Stock Market in New York City. Hours later, the 31-year-old Page and his partner, 30-year-old Sergey Brin, were multimillionaires. By the time the closing bell rang, Google, the Internet search engine the two friends had founded six years earlier, had sold $1.67 million worth of stock in their company - and the young entrepreneurs were understandably excited. Their search engine was used by thousands of people searching for information on the World Wide Web and had already earned a global reputation as the leader in search technology. But now Google was also a public company flush with investors' dollars. And for Page and Brin, that just meant more money for more innovations.