Google may have been founded in a garage (not really actually given all the work that was done at Stanford by the founders prior ) but that is NOT why Alphabet is a multi-million dollar company today. It's not the circumstances of a company's birth that matter. Instead, it's what the company brings to market that counts. Alphabet isn't the behemoth it is because of it's humble beginnings. It is one because the Google search engine was superior in every way to the existing search engines (Excite, Altavista etc)