Running head: KEEPING GOOGLE “GOOGLEY” Keeping Google “Googley” Kim Scott joined the Google team as the director of the Google product AdSense in 2004. Google was a company that started in 2004 with 3,000 employees and by 2008 boasted 17,000 employees. The company prided itself in hiring employees that fit the ‘Google personality’, meaning they would be part of an innovative, open corporate culture. Google didn’t want to be known for strict corporate
Keeping Google “Googley” By: M. Bertaccini, L. Dovesi, G. Nicolini, M. Olivieri, MC. Penna, M. Perini. The unbelievable success of Google • Revenue growth Ø 2004, $3.2 billion Ø 2013, $60 billion • Net income growth Ø 2004, $400 million Ø 2013, $13 billion • Employees growth Ø 2004, 3,000 Ø 2013, up to 55,000 The IPO stock growth from 2004 to 2014 January 2004, 24h after first IPO in NASDAQ: $100 per stock, public offer $2 billion. October 2008, May 2014, first position on stock
Being Googley Has Its Perks In 1998, Google Inc., “a company that did not actually exist,” (“Google Inc.” 2012 ) received their first investment of $100,000. This small startup company, originally named Backrub, was founded by two Stanford University PhD students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, in 1996. What started out as an internet search engine utilized by the students at Stanford University, became the world’s largest search engine in 2000. In just 4 years these two students took a research project
Google, a company that started out as an internet search engine, has grown in to a global corporation whose name now often used as a verb, commands respect. Their number one philosophy was and still is to focus on the end user as they strive to complete their mission of organizing the world’s information and making it accessible (Google, n.d.a). Wanting to remain a private company, Google found themselves at a crossroad. Due to its size and the fact that it had 500 shareholders, Google faced having
used to getting their own way” [in reference to founder-CEO’s] (Heller, 2008). Larry Page, president of products, also known for his great leadership skills and labeled as a “micromanager” eventually turned the reigns over to Eric Schmidt in 2001. Google utilizes a “tight top to bottom approach and despite its college like campus has a large portion of the control placed at the top of the structure. The original founders maintain a tight grip on many of the company decisions. Both Larry and Sergey