Promoted on the cover of this September issue, a young Larry Page and Sergey Brin gushed to Playboy about their new company and life as America’s newest billionaires.
The young entrepreneurs discussed very similar topics to what you would see in today’s news.
They discussed Google’s advertising model, their (what was then) odd employee culture, privacy concerns over gmail scanning and China’s international censorship.
The issue came out in 2004, and was a rare look into the lives of Google’s young founders. The company was only 6 years old at the time and still operated by the company motto of “Don’t Be Evil.”
Page shared his feeling over how tremendous of a responsibility Google was, having everybody relying on them for information and how serious he took being a part of people’s daily lives.
Brin on the other hand, tackled the business side of things. He judiciously described Google’s policy for distinguishing advertisements versus unpaid search results, and how Google builds software to accurately order relevant search results.
At the time of the interview Google had an annualized revenue of 2.7 billion. As of 2016, the company has grown to a market cap of roughly 507 billion and is known as the world’s largest public company.
Google has recently chosen to rebrand under a new parent company, Alphabet, and has been expanding ever since 1998 when they first launched in that iconic garage in Menlo Park.
It’s almost unbelievable how far this company has gone in a little over a decade.
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