A Google decade - 10 years of searching With Sergey and Larry
Eagerly they came - the young, the ambitious, the smartest of the smart.
They queued impatiently and crowded into the rafters above Charlie’s Cafe at the “Googleplex”, the curving glass and steel cathedral of the internet age. Finally, laptops snapped shut and the room hushed. It was time for Barack Obama to preach to the converted.
“There is something improbable about this gathering,” said the presidential hopeful, gazing around a sea of T-shirts at Google’s California headquarters.
“What we share is a belief in changing the world from the bottom up.”
It was last November, and Obama was asked whether he lacked political experience. He compared himself with the founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who a decade ago were university students with a big dream.
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