6th grade is preparing for a visit from Michael, a Google engineer who works in Fremont.  This week we went straight to the Wikipedia entry for information about the company and it’s founders, Larry & Sergey.  We talked about a lot of cool things:

  • Larry built his first computer when he was 12.
  • Larry & Sergey got a check for $100,000 to start their company, but the check was written to Google, Inc (a company that didn’t exist) so they had to create the company to get their money!
  • Google was started while the founders were at Stanford, and it was called “BackRub.”
  • They’ve given over $1B to philanthropic endeavors (Bill Gates also gives lots of money to charitable causes).