Google

Google began by two guys studying at Stanford University in California. Larry Page and Sergery Brin started a project in 1996 to create a search engine that would rank websites according to the number of other websites that linked to that site. The name Google comes from the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zero's. This term reflects the organizations mission to form a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.

In august of 2008, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes them a check for $100,000 to a company that didn’t even exist yet. It was at this very moment that they realized what they had and went and incorporated the name Google Inc. Their knowledge was great, but not great enough to impress the money boys or the major Internet portals. Oh how they wish they invested in them now! So they began struggling for financial support. Andy was one of the few to see true potential of what these boys had created. During their presentation to him, Andy said he had to duck out for another meeting and offered to write them a check. The check was for $100,000 and that indeed had got things moving for them. 

Andy Bechtolsheim, a co-founder of Sun writes a $100,000 check in August 2008. He wrote the check to Page and Brin to get the company moving in the right direction. Andy was one of the few to see potential of what these boys had created.