Larry Page
Date of Birth: 26.03.1973
Lawrence Edward 'Larry' Page - an American billionaire, along with Sergey Brin - developer of the search engine and co-founder of Google.
Place of Birth. Education. Larry Page was born on March 26, 1973, in Lansing, Michigan, USA, into a family of teachers: Carl Victor Page, professor of computer science at the University of Michigan, received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan in 1965 when the discipline of computer science was established, described by BBC reporter Will Smile as 'a pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence', and Gloria Page, professor of programming at the same university and at Lyman Briggs College.
Computers first caught Page's attention when he was six years old, so he could 'play with all the stuff around me' - with the first-generation personal computers left by his parents. He became 'the first child in his elementary school to submit an assignment in a word processing program'. His older brother also taught Page to take things apart, and soon Page was 'dismantling everything in his house to see how it worked'. Page also said: 'Even at a very young age, I realized that I wanted to invent things. That's why I was really interested in technology and business. I probably knew by the age of 12 that I would ultimately start a company'.
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Page attended Montessori School in Okemos, Michigan, from 1975 to 1979, now known as Montessori Radmoor School, in the community of Okemos, Michigan, and graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991. In middle school, he attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts as a saxophonist for two summers.
Page has a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.
Page is the inventor of PageRank, the most well-known algorithm for ranking links at Google. Page received the Marconi Prize in 2004.
Business. While studying at Stanford University, Page met another mathematician graduate student - Sergey Brin. Together they later founded the internet company Google, which was established in 1998. Page and Sergey Brin jointly held the position of president at Google.
In 2001, Google received a patent for the PageRank mechanism. The patent was officially issued to Stanford University, naming Lawrence Page as the inventor. Page is the inventor of PageRank, the most well-known algorithm for ranking links at Google. Page received the Marconi Prize in 2004.
In 2003, the company rented its current office complex from Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, California. The complex has since been known as Googleplex. Three years later, Google bought the property from SGI for $319 million. By this time, the name Google had entered the vernacular, resulting in the verb google being included in the academic dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary with the meaning 'to use the Google search engine to find information on the internet'.
In July 2001, Eric Schmidt took on the roles of chairman and CEO at Google at the invitation of the company’s founders.
On April 4, 2011, Larry Page was appointed CEO. Eric Schmidt remained chairman of the board of Google.
As of June 20, 2010, Page, Brin, and Eric Schmidt owned approximately 91% of the Class B shares, which together give their holders 68% of the voting power. The triumvirate has a decisive influence on all resolutions that fall within the purview of shareholders.
In 2015, as a result of the restructuring of Google and the establishment of the holding company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO.
Wealth. Page is among the richest people in the world. As of September 17, 2008, he ranked fourteenth on the Forbes 400 list with $15.8 billion.
In 2011, he ranked 24th on the Forbes billionaire list and became the eleventh richest person in the USA.
As of March 2017, Page ranked 12th on the list of the richest people in the world with a net worth of $40.7 billion.
Together with Sergey Brin, he purchased a Boeing 767 passenger aircraft for personal use.
As of November 16 2018, Page is one of the richest people in the world with a net worth of around $ 49.6 billion, ranking sixth on the Forbes list., according to Forbes.
Charity. In November 2014, the Page Family Foundation, the Karl Victor Page Memory Fund, reported with a net worth of over one billion dollars at the end of 2013, donated $15 million to support efforts to combat the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Family. In 2007, Larry Page married Lucinda Southworth on Necker Island in the Caribbean, owned by Richard Branson. Southworth is a researcher and the sister of actress and model Cary Southworth. They have two children, born in 2009 and 2011.
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