In the non-fiction book Google It written by Anna Crowley Redding, the author describes how Larry Page and Sergey Brin dropped out of school for their dream revolutionizing the web. In the setting, the book gives us information about the year 1995 and the place Stanford University. Furthermore, the two protagonists, Larry and Sergey, were two college students at Stanford University with an interesting idea. Now in 2023, they run the most innovative and influential companies in the world. Also, in the book Google It there were not only Larry and Sergey making this company there were crucial minor characters that gave advise and assisted Larry and Sergey to success. For instance, Eric Schmidt was the CEO for Google, he helped manage work, and played the role of CEO in other successful companies, which led google to make 400 million profits in 2002. Additionally, Craig Silverstein was the first employee in Google. Craig gave hope for Sergey and Larry to continue the dream because Google was not making any profit. Moreover, the book has an obvious central idea, notably that it “Risk your future to pursue your dreams”.  How did Larry and Sergey successfully complete their dreams? How did they turn a school project into a worlds most popular and successful company that people often use everyday? Read the book to find out!

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The page below was a note first taken in day 5, the central idea that I’ve noticed was people should risk their future to pursue their dreams.  Larry and Sergey had took risks like dropping out of University, which they were in Stanford University. Dropping out of a popular University to pursue their dream was not really true, but reality was Larry and Sergey has completed their dream.

 

As you can see, in day 7, I have read that Google was first not making money, they were spending a lot of money in making logos, computers, and mending tech issues that they were facing.

In day 8, I had read more in the book, and changed the central idea into hardships lead to success and revolutionizing the web. In the book, the author has mentioned a lot of problems like Larry and Sergey’s parents didn’t allow them to dropping out of school. The author has mentioned a lot of barriers that might stop Larry and Sergey completing their dream.

 

 

 

 

The page below shows the quotes i have used for supporting the central idea hardships lead to success and revolutionizing the web. I used bullet point form to take notes, and you could take a look below to see some notes I have taken throughout the whole book to address these central ideas.