In this success post, we are going to share Larry Page, an American entrepreneur and computer scientist who co-founded the colossal search engine company called Google.
Google has become an essential part of millions of people’s everyday lives and offers numerous internet products and services.
The super company was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the year 1998 with the aim of improving people’s everyday lives and make technology readable accessible to all.
As of 2020, Larry Page’s net worth is $48.2 billion.
Larry Page Early Life
Larry Page was born in the East Lansing, Michigan, on the 26th of March 1973, to parents Carl and Gloria Page.
His parents were both computer science professors, and as a child, his home was always filled with computer science magazines. At the age of 12 years old, he realized that he wanted to establish his very own company. He attended East Lansing High School and graduated in the year 1991.
He got his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering at the University of Michigan and later received a computer science master’s degree from Stanford University.
Larry Page Career
During his time at Stanford, Larry Page met Sergey Brin, a researcher working on a project in the year 1955. By the year 1996, Larry and Sergey had constructed their very first search engine called ‘BackRub,’ which was solely operating on Stanford servers for several months.
The two decided that they want to bring their idea to life, and the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Andy Bechtolsheim, played a major role in this process as he wrote them a check for $100000.
The company became a reality in the year 1988, and the name was respectively changed to the iconic name it holds to this current day, Google. In the year 2001, Eric Schmidt became the CEO, and the other leveled all the way up to presidents of products and technology.
In the year 2004, the website launched Orkut, the social networking website, and Google Desktop Search. And then later that same year they held the Initial Public Offering which instantly made them millionaires.
The year 2005 brought us Google Map, Blogger Mobile, Google Reader, and the company even acquired YouTube.
Google did collaboration in the year 2007 with Salesforce.com and China Mobile, and they also signed to make Google educational apps available to students in Rwanda and Kenya.
In the year 2008, they launched Google sites, which was the latest version of Google Earth, and the following year they also launched the Google Latitude another version on Google Venture and Google Earth. In the year 2010, they developed the Google Apps marketplace, and in the year 2011, Larry Page was named the new CEO, and Eric Schmidt would be the executive Chairman.
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