Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on The Google Story. It needs to be at least 1500 words.Download file to see previous pages... The Google Story is more than just the history of a suc

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on The Google Story. It needs to be at least 1500 words.

The Google Story is more than just the history of a successful company. it is a story about two college kids with a vision that held to their principles to become the rulers of the dot-com mountain.

The book covers 7 short years that encompassed the dot-com boom, the dot-com bust, and the new dot-com reality. During this period of Internet infancy, companies were rising and failing on a daily basis. Investors were overwhelmed by opportunities and under-impressed by a lack of results. The financial markets had gained a lukewarm attitude about these gee-whiz technologies and some had developed a "healthy skepticism for fancy PowerPoint presentations that wowed others" (46). Still, Google not only persisted they grew at a phenomenal rate. They shunned advertising and investors from the beginning and went head to head with technical giants such as Microsoft, AltaVista, and Yahoo. Eventually, the technology got too expensive for the ex-Stanford students to support and when the investors were let in, they were pleasantly shocked by what they found.

The authors, Vise and Malseed, were both journalists who had been reporters and researchers at the Washington Post. Vice's accolades include a 1990 Pulitzer Prize and a 1990 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Malseed was a researcher for Bob Woodward and had collaborated on several New York Times nonfiction bestsellers. True to their journalism roots, the book remains factual and the authors have no social or political ax to grind. They make ample use of interesting quotes and accurately place the people in time and space.

Though the book reads as a succession of topics presented in chronological order, it does contain the elements of a good novel. It tells the fairy tale story of the little guy that works hard to conquer all his adversaries by sticking to his principles and values. It has the protagonists, intrigue, suspense, and as with any good book the door is left open for a sequel. The Google Story is a tale that has only just begun.

Vise and Malseed set the tone for the book with the opening paragraph. They write, "Not since Gutenberg invented the modern printing press more than 500 years ago, making books and scientific tomes affordable and widely available to the masses, has any new invention empowered individuals, and transformed access to information, as profoundly as Google" (1). Yet, just 8 years earlier Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google, had been PhD students at Stanford University in computer science. While working at Stanford they became dissatisfied with the existing Internet search engines and began their research into Google.

In 1998, the pair took a leave from the Stanford program to pursue their Google dream. A year later they were in desperate need of cash and had been offered $25 million by what they considered "vulture capitalists" (67). Without even a business plan Brin and Page agreed to take the deal on one condition. they would delay hiring a chief executive for well into the future and not ever hire anyone they would have to report to (68). With the $25 million dollars secured, the next question loomed on their horizon.