Larry Page Biography and Success Story - The Co-founder of Google

Larry Page Biography and Success Story

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Larry Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder of  Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc. He co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.

Page is the inventor of PageRank, Google's best-known search ranking algorithm. Page received the Marconi Prize in 2004. As of October 2017, Page is the 12th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$47 billion.

About Larry Page

Larry Page was born on 26 March, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan, U.S. His father, Carl Page, was a pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence, and his mother Gloria taught computer programming at Lyman Briggs College and at Michigan State University. Larry Page's born name is Lawrence Edward Page. He married to Lucinda Page in 2007.

Page studied a BSc (Hons) in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, his home state followed by an MSc in computer science from Stanford University. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering he decided to concentrate on computer engineering at Stanford University, where he met Sergey Brin.

Career and Success Story - How He Found Google??

Larry Page met co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin, while both of them were studying for a PhD in computer science at Stanford University.

Page was interested in exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web (WWW) and his tutor encouraged him to pursue this as the topic of his thesis.

He decided and wanted to work out how many pages link back to any other given web page – something that was impossible to establish previously – taking his inspiration from the academic process of citing sources.

In order to do this, he created a web crawler called BackRub that was designed to examine the 10 million pages and innumerable additional documents that made up the web at that time.

In 1998, as a research project at Stanford University, Page and Brin created a search engine that listed results according to the popularity of the pages, after concluding that the most popular result would often be the most useful. They called the search engine "Google" after the mathematical term "Googol," which refers to the No. 1 followed by 100 zeros, this represented the vast amount of data that the search engine was intended to explore.

After raising $1 million from family, friends and other investors, the they launched the company in 1998. Google has since become the world's most popular search engine, receiving an average of 5.9 billion searches per day in 2013. Headquartered in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Google held its initial public offering in August 2004, making Page and Brin billionaires.

In the year 2006, Google purchased the most popular website for user-submitted streaming videos, YouTube, for $1.65 billion in stock.

In September 2013, Page was ranked No. 13 on the "Forbes 400" list of the richest people in America. As the CEO of Google, Page shared responsibility for the company's day-to-day operations with Brin, who served as director of special projects for Google, and Eric Schmidt, the company's executive chairman.

In the year of 2015, August 10, Page and Brin announced the creation of a new parent company called Alphabet to oversee Google and other subsidiaries. Page and Brin were set to serve as the new company's CEO and president, respectively, with Sundar Pichai stepping in as Google's top executive.

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