Wednesday 10 September 2008

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


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