The Google Parodies: "Billion Air Day" with Larry and Sergey

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Posted by Larry Rage and Sergey Grin

As our commitment to make the Googleplush more exciting for our Plushers, we recently celebrated a "Billion Air Day": to throw a billion dollar gold bars over the Valley. We thought it would be an excellent idea (and a monthly dose of confidence boost to shareholders) to share some of our fun moments with the envious world!

Here's a little photo essay of the day in life of Larry and Sergey, as we celebrate the first Google "Billion Air Day".

We started our exciting new day filled with an electrifying resolve to organize and power the world's information. Before we could get there, we conveniently forgot to electrify our car with some power! So, we got the AAA to deliver our Toyota to a nearby station. In recognition of the AAA guy's hardwork, we acquired AAA and made him its chief executive (company soon to be renamed GAAAgle).

Larry and Sergey fill up their car with some power

(Larry and Sergey fill up their Toyota with some excitement)

Once at the Plush, we first wanted to find out how much our company would weigh its worth in gold. And what better idea than to weigh it ourselves! So, we plucked our company's logo off one of our superplexiglass windows at the Plush and tried to get a feel of it. Please note that no 7-figure earning handymen were harmed during this exercise.

(Larry and Sergey weighing company logo to determine its worth in gold)

We then had a PowerPoint presentation (there goes a 10-point high for Microsoft stock, you're welcome, Bill) and shared our vision for the "Billion Air Day" with our top engineers, and asked the team to design a complex algorithm to determine the logo's mass and volume and compute the exact weight in gold (the Gold-Algo-Tweak team helped us out! Thanks, guys - and don't forget to collect the hundred-grand overtime on your way home!)

(Larry and Sergey presenting their vision to fellow Googleplushers)

Sadly, during lunch break, every one rushed out to the Gourmet Cafeteria for our Wednesday afternoon sushi special. That left Larry presenting to a captive audience of one, that is, Sergey.

Sergey sits alone listening to Larry's presentation as everyone else flees for lunch

(Sergey listening to Larry's presentation as everyone else gets excited over lunch.)

After lunch, there were heated arguments on whether the gold bars be etched with our Logo or embossed. One group was adamant on using diamond-studded logo variations, instead of plain embossing. In the end Sergey had to intervene when passions flew high and settled it with a brilliant suggestion that the bars would have a logo on one side and two diamonds for each letter "O".

(Sergey looks on as engineers fight over diamond studded gold bars)

After the presentation, the engineers were happy, but we had to get the proposal through our own appointed Chief Excellent Overseer, Eric Shebang. So we had a quick meeting with him. We tried to convince him of our super-new ideas.

But he wasn't buying.

Larry, Sergey and Eric discussing the big plan

(Larry, Sergey and Eric discuss the big plan)

We had to convince our own-appointed head honcho. But there was an obvious stalemate. So, in the end, we decided to settle it via our usual Google management technique with Eric: Spiral-rolling on the floor until the stubborn one breaks down! That did the trick. Though it took us three hours to roll all over the Plush!

(Larry, Sergey and Eric using Google's innovative management techniques.)

Then, we hired a Boeing 747 and filled it head-to-tail with gold bars, and created quite a stir around Mountain View (soon to be renamed Mount Google Beta) as the plane parachuted solid gold bars all over the Silicon Valley (soon to be renamed Googold Valley.) Many fellow techies from the Googleplush rushed out to see what was happening!