| 1 | Google, which Monday announced it's reorganizing under a new parent company called "Alphabet," is one of the biggest and best-known companies in Silicon Valley. |
| 2 | Here are some highlights from the past 20 years. |
| 3 | 1995: Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford University, where grad student Brin gives prospective student Page a tour. |
| 4 | 1996: The pair beings working on a new search engine for the Internet, which evolves to become Google. |
| 5 | 1998: Google incorporates and moves into Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, California. |
| 6 | 1999: Page and Brin move their company to Mountain View, California, and hire the company's first in-house chef to prepare meals for workers. |
| 7 | 2001: Eric Schmidt is named CEO, with Page and Brin as presidents of products and technology. |
| 8 | 2004: A few months after introducing Gmail, Google holds its first public stock offering. |
| 9 | 2006: Google acquires YouTube for $1.6 billion. |
| 10 | 2011: Larry Page becomes CEO, Schmidt becomes executive chairman. |
| 11 | 2014: Google completes a controversial stock split that creates a new class of non-voting shares, cementing Page and Brin's control as major voting stockholders. |
| 12 | 2015: Page announces creation of new holding company, Alphabet, to include Google's core business and other entities. |