Google drive – 18 Amazing Stats and Facts

1. What does Google Drive do :
   1. Google Drive is a cloud based document storage platform. Drive facilitates file sharing option with others. It can be integrated with third party applications also. Supporting all types of files i.e. Archive files, Audio files, Image files, Markup/code, Text files, Video files.
2. Launch year : 2012
3. Company Name : Google – Drive is one of Google’s product
4. Head quarters : Mountain View, California, United States
5. Founder(s) : Developer is Google
6. How many people use Google Drive: One billion (Approx.)
7. Revenue :  $2.6 billion cloud revenue (includes G Suite, gmail / Docs / Drive / Hangouts and Google’s cloud)
8. Active users : 2 billion monthly active users (Google’s G Suite – which encompasses Gmail, Docs, Sheets and other productivity tools)
9. Paid customers: 6 million paying customers in the year of 2019
10. Number of organisations that use Google Drive : More than 1000 (including Salesforce, Whirlpool, Cardinal Group)
11. Number of countries that Google Drive has users in : Google is available in 130
12. Top 5 Competitors or similar products :  Microsoft Onedrive, Box, Dropbox
13. Google Drive means : A drive between cloud storage and user
14. History : Jonathan joined Google in 2005 as part of the acquisition of 2Web Technologies, where he was the co-founder and CEO. In 2006, he co-founded Google Docs and Spreadsheets, which was later expanded to become Google Drive.
15. Free plan : 15 GB free storage space
16. What makes Google Drive interesting: Excellent and collaboration, Large free plan, integrated with third party apps, file sharing option with drive users and also with non-drive users.
17. Criticism : No security password for sharing links

+ One interesting news:
Matters Cloud announces integration with Google Drive