Larry Page
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Lawrence E. "Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973) is one of the founders of the Google internet search engine and is currently the President of Products of Google Inc.
Early life and education
Larry Page was born in Lansing, Michigan. He is a graduate of East Lansing High School. Page holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan with honors and a Masters degree from Stanford University.
Larry Page is the son of Carl Vincent Page, a professor of computer science at Michigan State University and Gloria Page, a computer programming teacher at Michigan State University.
Business
While a student in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Page met Sergey Brin. Together they ran the Google search engine, which began operating in 1998. Google is based on patented PageRank technology, which relies on the structure of links between web sites to determine the ranking of an individual site. Page is still "on leave" from the Ph.D. program.
While in the university, he built a working inkjet printer from Lego pieces.
Page ran Google as co-president with Brin until 2001, when they hired Eric Schmidt to become Chairman and CEO of Google. Page now runs Google as a triumvirate along with Brin and Schmidt.
According to Forbes, Page has an estimated net worth of $12.8 Billion, making him the 27th richest person in the world. In September 2005 he and fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin purchased a very large passenger plane, a Boeing 767, for their private use.
External links
- Larry Page's Stanford website
- Google Corporate Information: Management
- Discussion of the Page and Brin Boeing 767Template:Compu-bio-stub
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