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Google Maps

10 facts from 6 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.

2004

Google bought the companies behind Google Maps for about $70 million around 2004, and Maps was estimated to earn about $3 billion in revenue.

“Bought for $70 million, doing about $3 billion in revenue 16 years later.”

Acquired · The Top 10 Acquisitions of All-Time, 0:30:09

2004

Google acquired Where 2 Technologies, whose web-based mapping application became the core of Google Maps.

“So Google ends up buying Where To. That becomes the core of Google Maps.”

Acquired · Google Part II: Alphabet, 0:35:50

2006

Google released the Google Maps API in 2006, which enabled the 'mashup' wave of web startups.

“All right, there's one more really important piece of maps, which is the next year in 2006, they released the API.”

Acquired · Google Part II: Alphabet, 0:38:02

Undated

Bret Taylor says Google Maps' engineering leaders were the Danish brothers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, whose company Where 2 Technologies Google had acquired and hired.

“The engineering leaders were Lars and Jens Rasmussen, two Danish brothers who had started a company called Where Two Technologies that Google had aquihired.”

Bret Taylor · Bret Taylor - The Agent Era - [Invest Like the Best, EP.386], 0:08:36

Undated

Where 2 Technologies had built a Windows application called Expedition, which resembled Google Earth, and Google Maps began as an effort to bring that experience into a web browser.

“That had built a Windows app called Expedition, which was a really cool, installable Windows app, a little bit like Google Earth.”

Bret Taylor · Bret Taylor - The Agent Era - [Invest Like the Best, EP.386], 0:08:36

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