Larry Page

Born:
March 26 1973

Background:

Page is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the Google web search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin.

Larry Page is the son of the late Dr. Carl Victor Page, a professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at Michigan State University and one of the University of Michigan's first computer science Ph.D graduates, and Gloria Page, a computer programming teacher at Michigan State University.

After enrolling for a Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Page was in search for a dissertation theme and considered - among other things - exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.

Occupation:

In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, Inc. Page is still "on leave" from the Ph.D. program.
Page ran Google as co-president with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt to become Chairman and CEO of Google.

In 2007, Page was cited by PC World as #1 on the list of the 50 most important people on the web, along with Brin and Schmidt.

Page had an estimated net worth of $18.5 Billion, placing him at rank 26 on Forbes's list of the richest persons in the world, together with Brin

Sergey Brin

Born : August 21 1973

BackGround:

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born in Moscow, in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family.

Brin received further education at home by his father who is professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Maryland.

Occupation:

Brin began his graduate study in Computer Science at Stanford University on a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He expressed interest in the Internet very early on in his studies at Stanford. He also wrote software to ease the process of putting scientific papers often written in TeX, a text-processing language, into HTML form, as well as a website for film ratings.

Brin currently holds the position of President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $18.5 billion as of March 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world and the 5th richest person in the United States together with Larry Page. He is also the fourth-youngest billionaire in the world.