Whose Money Made Google to Stand as Google! ?, You Should Know?
That an Indian was instrumental in the formation of GOOGLE. So there is a long list of all the top Indian achievers in the States. From Rajat Gupta to Satya Nadella, from Indra Nooyi to Vikram Pandit, from Sundar Pichai to Vinod Khosla, but this man never features in any of them. He is still unheard and unknown of in the mainstream media. He was so instrumental that simply put it GOOGLE WOULD NOT HAVE EXISTED TODAY BUT FOR HIM. Ram Sriraman So when Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford, they were just young twenty year olds with an idea of a search engine. They explained this idea to their professor who helped them meet some investors. A majority of them were not-so-impressed by this. Then, they stumbled upon this investor called Ram Shriram who also found it OK. But, he was impressed by their passion so without thinking much he handed them a cheque of 500,000 dollars. Can you imagine the duo didn't even have a bank account at that time to deposit that cheque? And...