An early Google employee filmed inside the company's garage office in 1998—take a look

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An early Google employee filmed inside the company's garage office in 1998—take a look. (via CNBCMakeIt)

"This is our garage," the unnamed Google employee says in the video. "We got a ping pong table, computers. On the other side of the office, [is] our hack room."rented the garage space

for $1,700 a month from Susan Wojcicki. At the time, Wojcicki was working in the marketing department at Intel. "I was worried about covering the mortgage. So I was willing to rent my garage to any student," Wojcicki told "60 Minutes'" Lesley Stahl in an interview that aired Sunday. "[T]hen two students appeared. One was named Sergey Brin. The other was named Larry Page. They are the founders of Google. But at the time they were just students. They looked like any other students.

The following year, Wojcicki became the company's 16th employee, working as its first marketing manager. Wojcicki is now the CEO of YouTube, which is owned by Alphabet. In 1999, Google moved into an actual office space in Palo Alto, California. In 2003, the company leased its "

 

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