Skip to content. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. You switched accounts on another tab or window. Dismiss alert. Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 1 Star 2. Latest commit. History History. File metadata and controls Code. Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company's stake. Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, , and its initial public offering followed on August 19, The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"[9] and the company's unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil".
Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine.
The company offers online productivity software including email, an office suite, and social networking. Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, as well as the Google Chrome OS browser-only operating system,[12] found on specialized netbooks called Chromebooks.
Google has increasingly become a hardware company with its partnerships with major electronics manufacturers on its high-end Nexus series of devices and its acquisition of Motorola Mobility in May ,[13] as well as the construction of fiber-optic infrastructure in Kansas City as part of the Google Fiber broadband Internet service project. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.
Google's production servers continue to be built with inexpensive hardware. Reasons ranged from shareholder pressure for employee benefit reductions to the fact that many company executives would become instant paper millionaires. The purpose of the Chief Culture Officer is to develop and maintain the culture and work on ways to keep true to the core values that the company was founded on: a flat organization with a collaborative environment.
