2 College Students Built a $2 Trillion Company – This Is How Google Really Started

The Rise of Google: Two Stanford Students, One Rejected Sale, and the Search Empire That Followed The Rise of Youtube:    • How YouTube Started: The Untold Story of t...   Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University and built something they called BackRub a search engine ranking web pages by backlinks instead of keywords. It was a research project, not a business. When they tried to sell it in 1999, they approached Yahoo with an asking price of just $1 million. Yahoo said no. That single rejection would go down as one of the biggest missed opportunities in tech history. Instead of selling, Page and Brin renamed their project Google, moved into a garage, and built what would become the most powerful search engine and eventually the most valuable information company on the planet. This is the story of how a college research project turned into an empire, and how Yahoo's mistake changed the internet forever. 🔔 Subscribe for more deep dives into the tech companies that shaped our world. #Google #TechHistory #LarryPage #SergeyBrin #Yahoo #Stanford #SiliconValley #Startup #TechDistrict #BigTech #Entrepreneurship #InternetHistory #GoogleHistory #TechDocumentary #RiseAndFall #businessstory