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Business 25 min

The Meeting Where Google Almost Died

Two grad students tried to sell Google for $750,000. The buyer said no.

In 1999, Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell Google for $750,000. The buyer passed. A year later they were nearly out of money, their servers held together with cork and plywood, and they had no business model. What saved Google was the exact thing they'd sworn they would never build.

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