Larry Page and Sergey Brin have no shortage of ideas, let alone technology, and what they lack is money. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Their family background was pretty good, Larry Page's father, Carl Vinson Page, was a computer science professor at Michigan State University with a Ph.D. in computer science, and his mother, Gloria Page, was also a computer science professor at Michigan State University. Sergei Brin was born into a Jewish family in Moscow, both of whom graduated from Moscow State University, and his father, Mikhail Brin, who was a teacher at a Moscow school and worked in the Soviet Planning Commission, "tried to use data to prove that the standard of living of the Soviets was much higher than that of the Americans, but what was the truth?" When Sergei was 6 years old, his family immigrated from the Soviet Union to live in the United States, where his father became a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, while his mother Yevgenia worked for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

But their thoughts are undoubtedly beyond the comprehension of their parents, and it is certainly impossible to provide them with financial support, and other relatives and friends have also expressed doubts, and they have basically no financial support now.

If Lu Chong hadn't come over to invest, their first few years would not have been easy.

In order to make the plan a reality, they programmed on cheap computers in their dormitories and tested the newly developed search engine on the Internet, which was first used by students, faculty and administrators within Stanford University, and quickly became popular, and the university's technology certification center patented the technology. Therefore, the curriculum and research related to doctoral degrees were suspended and the system was continuously developed. The two of them raised R&D funds from all the teachers and students, their respective families and friends, and together they managed to buy some servers and rent a garage in Menlo Park as a base......

Susan Wojcki, a female Ph.D. who had just finished her MBA, joined intel, bought a house, and rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were introduced by a friend, in order to pay off the loan.

Later, this female doctor became one of the world's 100 authoritative figures in "Time", "the most influential woman on the Internet" in Forbes, and she also formed an indissoluble bond with Google, which made 97% of the company's profits from the team she led. She is Susan Wojcicki, known as the "God of Wealth of Google", and it is she who has made an indelible contribution to the commercialization of Google.

During Google's early days, Susan would often eat pizza and M&M beans with Paige and Brin on weeknights, listening to them talk about "crazy" Google planning. When the founders kindly invited her to join Google, Susan didn't expect much from them: "Oh, forget it, you just have to pay your rent on time." ”

As a result, within a few months, Susan suddenly announced that she was giving up her high-paying job at intel to join Google. The reason for joining Google seems to be willful, and one day Google's servers went down. After Susan interrupted most of the day's work, she realized that many people would be very dependent on Google for their jobs: "The things that the young people in our garage are tossing around will be difficult for people to leave in the future." ”

Although there is confidence in the future, at that time, Google could only be described as "poor and white", not to mention money, college students started a business, there was no income at all, and the employees were all engineers who could only know technology and did not know how to buy and sell, and the speed of spending money was also very fast.

Susan's life after joining Google is actually quite chaotic, her work place is in her garage, and she has a big belly while trying to lead a group of tech nerds to make money.

The first step is to make a name for yourself on Google. But Google was too poor to spend a penny on promotion, so Susan had to persuade the university website to embed the Google search box for free, and at the same time make many creative logos for Google to beautify the page.

These two moves have made more and more "repeat customers" in Google searches. Susan went back to pull advertisers to advertise, and then the Google Adwords platform was launched, and advertisers were able to manage their own ads, and ads would appear accordingly based on people's search terms. In addition, Susan and her team came up with a bidding model, where the higher the bid, the higher the ad position, which has become a model for many search engine ads. Finally, Google made its first pot of gold, and Google's commercialization hopes surfaced.

Shortly after a particularly difficult time when Google was in a garage, Andy-Bechtolsheim, the company's founder, current vice president and Stanford alumnus, offered to sign a check for $100,000 to sponsor "Google." But there was a problem at that time, Google still didn't really exist, and Google hadn't officially applied to start a company. Two weeks later, while the founders were still busy working on paperwork, there was nowhere to safely store the money. On September 7, 1998, 25-year-old Larry and 24-year-old Brin officially founded Google, which at that time only offered search engines using PageRank. They hired their first employee, Craig Silverstein, to become the head of technology at Google.

By February 1999, the startup was no longer big enough for a garage to fit in, so it moved to an office upstairs from a bike shop in Palo Aito, Calif. The conditions are still rudimentary, but better than the garage, a ping-pong table serves as a formal meeting place, and eight employees can't turn around in the office, and everyone has to get up and move their stools to make room when they want to go out. Seven months later, the office was no longer big enough, so the company moved to a featureless building in an office park a few miles from the highway near Mountain View, Google received $25 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and KleinerPerkinsCaufield, and on Sept. 21, Google ceased to be a beta search engine and began processing about 300 million search results per day.

Judging from the development of the first two years of their life, the funds that Lu Chong is giving them now are definitely a long drought!

What Lu Chong is doing now is very simple, give the two of them a vision, a plan, a framework, and then keep investing money until it can make a profit.

In this process, Lu Chong will also give Sequoia Capital and other venture capital opportunities, but their shares can only be diluted from the other two people, not from him, and Lu Chong wants to guarantee his control of Google.

But there is a very serious problem, he is a person from the Chinese mainland and has a military background, it is difficult for the US government to recognize, it is very likely that one day in the future, the US government will announce Lu Chong's hidden identity, and then take all Lu Chong's shares in Google back to the US government, in that case, Lu Chong will be empty.