Google Corporate Culture

In 1995 Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University. Larry and Sergey began to review and search on an engine called BackRub. BackRub is an engine that operates on Stanford servers. The name was “googol” it is a mathematical term for the number that represents by the number 1 followed by 100 zero’s. Larry and Sergey’s mission was to organize an infinite amount of information on the web. In 1998 Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000.00 to an entity that did not exist yet. A company called Google Inc. Larry and Sergey hired their first employee Craig Silverstein a Computer Science graduate from Stanford, and their journey began. Googles mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful to everyone. Since 1998 Google has grown to serve millions of people worldwide. The mission statement from 1998 is “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” When asked whether the company needs a new mission statement, Page said, “I think we do, probably ... [but] we’re still trying to work that out.” He also said, “The societal goal is our primary goal ... We’ve always tried to say that with Google. I think we’ve not succeeded as much as we’d like.” (2014, Lilly Hay Newman). …show more content…
They strive to maintain the open culture often associated with startups, in which everyone is a hands-on supplier and allows them to feel comfortable by sharing ideas and their opinions. They have a weekly meeting (“TGIF”) where Googlers ask questions directly to Larry, Sergey and other executives about any number of company situations. Their offices and their cafeterias are planned to encourage collaborations between Googlers within and across teams, and to spart conversations about their work as well as their play. Rounding it all up, Google is the number one working