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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. American computer scientist and businessman (born 1973) In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovich and the family name is Brin. Sergey Brin Сергей Брин Brin in 2010 Born (1973-08-21) August 21, 1973 (age 51) Moscow, Soviet Union ...
Page was an avid reader during his youth, writing in his 2013 Google founders letter: "I remember spending a huge amount of time pouring [sic] over books and magazines". [33] According to writer Nicholas Carlson, the combined influence of Page's home atmosphere and his attentive parents "fostered creativity and invention".
Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg were cited by Page and Brin as being critical to the development of Google. Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd later co-authored with Page and Brin the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998. Héctor García-Molina and Jeff Ullman were also cited as contributors to the project ...
The founders have largely declined to be the public face of the company over the last few years; Page failed to show up for a 2018 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on foreign election meddling.
Bezos asked Shriram to meet Google's founders and they met six months after Shriram had made his investment when Bezos and his wife were on a vacation trip to the Bay Area. Google's initial funding round had already formally closed but Bezos' status as CEO of Amazon was enough to persuade Page and Brin to extend the round and accept his investment.
Page is famously private, even by the standards of tech founders. He stopped presenting at Google product launches and earnings calls in 2013 and hasn't attended a press conference since 2015.
Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015, after previously being appointed chief product officer by then CEO Larry Page. On October 24, 2015, he stepped into the new position at the completion of the formation of Alphabet Inc., the new holding company for the Google company family.
He served as Google’s CEO for two separate stints; first between 1997 and 2001, and then again from 2011 to 2015—and led Alphabet until 2019, when current CEO Sundar Pichai took the reins.