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Google headquarters
Google's main corporate headquarters and largest campus, located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View since the company's expansion from its original office.
Google's headquarters sits at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, the central campus of a company founded in 1998 in a Menlo Park garage and now operating globally. The Googleplex, as it is known, was designed to reflect the company's culture of openness and collaboration, and it serves as the base for the teams that build Google's core products. The campus is built around a central plaza and includes offices, cafeteria and recreation spaces, green areas, and infrastructure for the thousand-plus employees who work there.
The headquarters campus has become emblematic of the technology industry's presence in Silicon Valley: a self-contained community where employees can work, eat, exercise, and collaborate without leaving the grounds. The site was deliberately constructed to support the kind of spontaneous interaction the company's founders believed led to innovation, with breakout areas, sidewalk spaces for walking meetings, and areas designed for both focused work and chance encounters.
For the families of the people who work at the Googleplex and the hundreds of other technology employers in Mountain View, life insurance planning is often part of a longer conversation about financial stability during the early career years when stock options are vesting, bonuses are variable, and family size is changing. A term policy sized to a household's actual obligations—mortgage, education expenses, income replacement—gives those working in high-skill fields the protection to take on the next project or the next promotion without worrying that a change in income would destabilize the people who depend on them.