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Google Purchases Its First Home

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lets-all-crash-on-the-couch dept.

noparkingzone writes "ZDnet is reporting that Google has purchased the garage that the company first called home for an undisclosed sum. The Menlo Park structure was owned by a friend of one of Brin's girlfriends. Leased to Serge and Brin by Susan Wojcicki for around $1,700 per month in 1998, the original Googleplex is intended to be preserved as part of the company's living history."

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  1. Re:...sell, sell, sell... by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 3, Informative

    I just follow the earnings. If they keep making money, then whatever they're doing is working.

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  2. Re:Was it a special garage? by blincoln · · Score: 2, Informative

    $1700 seems steep, even for today's standards.

    It's actually not, for that area.

    I have some friends who work down there (not at Google, but the same area). They took me on a tour of it when I visited a few years ago. We walked by some small houses (looked like 2-3BR, single-car garage type of places) near where their office is, and they said every one of them was valued at over a million dollars.

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