Larry Page

Early life and Education - Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26, 1973, in Lansing, Michigan. - His mother is Jewish and his maternal grandfather later immigrated to Israel. - Pages household was secular despite his mother's Jewish background. - His father, Carl Victor Page Sr., earned a PhD in computer science from the University of Michigan. - Pages paternal grandparents came from a Protestant background. - Page attended Okemos Montessori School and East Lansing High School. - He played flute and saxophone at Interlochen Center for the Arts. - Page received a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University of Michigan. - He obtained a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University. - Page was involved in various projects and societies during his education. Co-founding Google and Alphabet Inc. - Page co-founded Google with Sergey Brin. - He served as the CEO of Google from 1997 to 2001 and again from 2011 to 2015. - Page became the CEO of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, in 2015. - He stepped down from all executive positions in December 2019 but remains an Alphabet board member and controlling shareholder. - Page is known for his role in creating the PageRank algorithm. Achievements and investments - Page has an estimated net worth of $116 billion as of November 2023. - He received the Marconi Prize in 2004 for co-creating the PageRank algorithm. - Page has invested in flying car startups Kitty Hawk and Opener. - He is recognized for his creativity and invention. - Page's musical education inspired his interest in technology and business. PhD studies and research - Page pursued a PhD in computer science at Stanford University. - He focused on the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web. - Page and Sergey Brin collaborated on a research project called BackRub. - They authored a research paper titled 'The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine.' - Page's research on backlinks and citations contributed to the development of Google's search engine. Google's founding and growth - BackRubs web crawler was used to gather backlink data. - PageRank algorithm was developed by Brin and Page to measure the importance of web pages. - The algorithm analyzed the relevance of backlinks between web pages. - Brin and Page used spare parts from inexpensive computers to create a device for their search engine. - The project caused problems for Stanford's computing infrastructure. - Page and Brin set up a simple search page for users using basic HTML programming skills. - They assembled computing power from any available computer parts. - The search engine grew in popularity and required additional servers. - In August 1996, the initial version of Google was made available to Internet users. - By early 1997, Google had 10,000 searches a day. - Google's impact has been compared to Johannes Gutenberg and the printing press. - Google empowered individuals and transformed access to information. - Page and Brin expanded their vision beyond web searches to digitizing books and health information. - Google's invention spread knowledge and contributed to the information age. - Brin and Page solicited funds to buy servers and rented a garage in Menlo Park. - Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a $100,000 check to Google before it was incorporated. - In 1998, Google, Inc. was incorporated with the initial domain name of Googol. - Page became CEO and Brin served as co-founder and president. - The mission of Google was to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. - The inaugural team moved into a Mountain View office in 2000. - Page experimented with smaller servers to increase efficiency. - By June 2000, Google had indexed one billion Internet URLs, making it the most comprehensive search engine at the time. - Google provided access to 560 million full-text indexed web pages and 500 million partially indexed URLs. - Page attempted to fire all project managers in 2001, aiming for engineers to report to a VP of engineering.