Larry Page

Larry Page is known as an American internet entrepreneur and computer scientist. He is most famous for being a part of the team that created Google.

Background and Age

Lawrence Page was born on March 26, 1973, in East Lansing, Michigan. His father, Carl Page, was a pioneer in software engineering and artificial intelligence, and his mom trained PC programming. Subsequent to winning a Bachelor of Science certificate in building from the University of Michigan, Page chose to focus on PC designing for graduate school at Stanford University, where he met his future Google co-founder, Sergey Brin.

Married, Wife and Kids

Page has been married to researcher Lucinda Southworth since 2007. The couple has two children together.

Career and Net Worth

As an examination project at Stanford University, Page and his partner, Sergey Brin made a web index that recorded outcomes as indicated by the popularity of the pages, subsequent to presuming that the most prominent outcome would frequently be the most valuable. They called the web crawler "Google" after the numerical term "googol," which alludes to the No. 1 pursued by 100 zeros, to mirror their central goal to arrange the colossal measure of data accessible on the web.

In the wake of raising $1 million from family, companions and different speculators, the pair propelled the organization in 1998. Google has since become the world's most mainstream web crawler, getting a normal of 5.9 billion searches daily in 2013. Headquartered in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Google held its first sale of stock in August 2004, making Page and Brin extremely rich people. In 2006, Google obtained the most prominent site for user submitted video recordings, YouTube, for $1.65 billion in stock.

In September 2013, Page was positioned No. 13 on the Forbes 400 rundown of the most extravagant individuals in America. That October, he was positioned No. 17 on Forbes' 2013 "Most Powerful People" list. As Google's CEO, Page shared obligation regarding the organization's everyday operations with Brin, who filled in as director of unique projects for Google, and Eric Schmidt, the organization's official administrator.

In December 2019, it was announced that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who have generally avoided the spotlight since rebuilding their organization four years prior, are giving up control of parent organization Alphabet to current Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The pair made the statement in a joint letter distributed to Google's open blog. The two men will remain representatives of Alphabet and hold their seats on the board, however they will never again supervise the organization's trillion-dollar domain they made while at Stanford University over 20 years prior.