Originally published in Entrepreneur Magazine

By Miriam Rivera

It’s incredible that it took just 18 years for Google — the company reached this milestone of adulthood on Sept. 27 — to create a market capitalization of more than $530 billion. It’s perhaps even more amazing to recall how the search engine has changed life as we know it.

Google, now a unit of holding parent company Alphabet Inc., began in Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s Stanford University dorm in 1998 before campus officials asked them to find a real office after the Stanford IT department complained Page and Brin’s were sucking up all the university’s bandwidth.

By the time I joined the company in November of 2001, it was apparent that we were changing the world. As an early employee at Google — the second attorney hired there — there were times when shivers ran up my spine thinking about what we were building. Democratizing access to information, and bringing the real world online — it was an inspiring place to be.

Read the full article at https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/283085

Miriam Rivera is a Kaufmann Fellow and co-founder and managing partner at Ulu Ventures.