In January 1996, LarryandSergey ended up working in the same office, number 360, in the just-completed William Gates Computer Science Building on Stanford’s campus. The building was of course named after the founder of Microsoft, who had donated $6 million to the construction. All his career, Bill Gates repeatedly predicted that one day, some student somewhere would found a company that would challenge Microsoft for dominance of the tech industry. His prediction turned out to be right, and from a building with his name on it.
