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Event · Company and acquisitions

The Menlo Park garage, Google's first office

After the August 1998 investment, the new company moved from Stanford dorms to the garage of a house in Menlo Park, California. The owner, Susan Wojcicki, joined Google the following year and years later ran YouTube.

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September 1998

First Google office (Menlo Park garage)

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

  • September 1998 Date · approximate date [1][2]

What the sources say

ClaimRecordConfidenceSources
Homeowner Susan Wojcicki, later Google employee #16 2 · Single primary source [1] primary
Rent US$1,700 per month 1 · Confirmed by independent sources [3] secondary[2] secondary
Address 232 Santa Margarita Ave., Menlo Park 3 · Secondary source [4] secondary
Scale at the time About 10,000 searches a day when the first servers ran there 3 · Secondary source [4] secondary
Fate of the house Bought by Google in 2006 3 · Secondary source [4] secondary

What the confidence levels mean

Historical captures

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Sources

  1. Our story — Google. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
  2. Susan Wojcicki, MBA '98 — UCLA Anderson Alumni. Source secondary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
  3. Craig Silverstein (Research Starter) — EBSCO. Source secondary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
  4. Google buys house where it all began — UPI, October 3, 2006. Source secondary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive

What still needs documenting

  • Primary source for the rent amount
  • Date of the move into the garage

On GD

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How to cite

"The Menlo Park garage, Google's first office", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/garagem-menlo-park-1998/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.

ID: garagem-menlo-park-1998 · Reviewed on November 2, 2026