In 1995, searching for a dissertation theme, Larry Page considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.
As google.com’s popularity continued to grow at Stanford, they were faced with a decision: finish their graduate work or create a business around their growing search engine and PageRank algorithm.
After the domain was registered, the company received its first financial backing of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems.