Yes, that’s right! Google founded in America by Larry Page & Sergey Brin got its very first funding from Indian born American businessman, “Ram Shriram<\/i>“. Domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997 & “Google Inc<\/i>” was registered on September 4, 1998. Post registration , Ram Shriram (despite being skeptical about Google’s future!) was the first investor who invested $ 250,000 in Google & rest is history (Thanks Mr. Shriram for being part of a company who changed the world we knew!). Now he serves as founding board member of Google & has net worth of $2.1 billion as of March 2017.<\/p>\n
Source: Googled: The End of the World As We Know It<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, that’s right! Google founded in America by Larry Page & Sergey Brin got its very first funding from Indian born American businessman, “Ram Shriram“. Domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997 & “Google Inc” was registered on September 4, 1998. Post registration , Ram Shriram (despite being skeptical about Google’s future!)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,256,31,6,4,234,13,19,3,5],"tags":[272,117,58,167,281,63,74,282,283,284,285,101,171,139,191],"thb-sponsors":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Google-Got-Its-First-Funding-investment-From-An-Indian-WinfiY-crunch.jpg?fit=660%2C335&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9V90w-d6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutecrunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}