Friday, October 25, 2013

Google pushes Mountain View's limits

Google’s growth pushes Mountain View limits



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In 2000, Kevin Duggan, then the city manager of Mountain View, visited a small startup located at 2400 Bayshore Parkway.
It had been a busy day, so Duggan didn’t do a lot of preparation. “I said, ‘I’ve never heard of Google,’” Duggan recalled recently. “What do they do?”
Before having lunch on a back porch — joined by two guys named Sergey and Larry — Duggan and other city officials toured the office. “They showed us their ‘server farm,’” Duggan said. “It was in a closet.”
Google Inc., which celebrated its 15th anniversary last month, has since mushroomed into a ...
Nathan Donato-Weinstein covers commercial real estate and transportation for the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

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