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Craig Silverstein, the first employee

Craig Silverstein, Page and Brin's fellow PhD student at Stanford, was the first employee hired by the new company in 1998. He left his doctorate to join Google and became director of technology.

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1998

First employee hired

Event · Company and acquisitions · Concluded

sources · timeline 1995–1999

Interpretive reconstruction · Beta minimalism Conventions of 1998–1999 minimalist pages: white background, lots of empty space, short centered text. Does not reproduce any Google page.

Dates

  • 1998 Date · exact date [1][2]

What the sources say

ClaimRecordConfidenceSources
Role First employee; later director of technology 1 · Confirmed by independent sources [1] secondary[2] secondary
Left Google 2012 3 · Secondary source [2] secondary

What the confidence levels mean

Historical captures

No archived capture has been located for this record yet.

Sources

  1. Craig Silverstein (Research Starter) — EBSCO. Source secondary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
  2. Where Google's first employees are today — SlashGear. Source secondary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive

What still needs documenting

  • Hiring date
  • Primary source: 2010 Mercury News interview cited by EBSCO

On GD

GD has followed Google since 2006. Search GD for “Craig Silverstein” (in Portuguese)

How to cite

"Craig Silverstein, the first employee", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/craig-silverstein-primeiro-funcionario/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.

ID: craig-silverstein-primeiro-funcionario · Reviewed on November 2, 2026