Facts about Larry Page
4 Good Links
A Letter from Larry and Sergey
Their 2019 blog post announcing their semi-resignationsAcademy of Achievement: Larry Page
From 2000, an in-depth bio and interview of PageLarry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Start-Up Roots
2011 report from WiredLarry Page: The Untold Story
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Larry Page Biography
Larry Page and his friend Sergey Brin created the search engine Google in 1998.
Larry Page’s father was a professor of computer science at Michigan State, and Larry studied computing at the University of Michigan. Larry Page earned his B.S.E. in 1995 and then moved on to graduate school at Stanford University. There he began to create and analyze his own catalogue of Internet links and was joined by Brin, a fellow Stanford grad student he met in 1995.
Together they wrote the paper “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” and created their own search engine, at first known as BackRub and then in 1998 officially incorporated as Google. It was soon enormously popular. Google became a public company in 2004, making Page and Brin billionaires at age 27. The company brought in Eric Schmidt as CEO in 2001, and he ran the company in a triumvirate with Page and Brin for the next successful decade as Google became the most-used search engine on the planet. During those years, Larry Page had the title of co-founder and president of products.
Google announced in 2011 that Larry Page was taking over as CEO of Google, with Schmidt becoming executive chairman. In 2015 the company was reorganized under the corporate name Alphabet, with Page becoming Alphabet’s CEO and Brin becoming its president. In December of 2019, both announced that they were stepping down from the jobs, but would remain active on the Alphabet Board of Directors.
Extra credit
Google is a play on the mathematical term googol — a one followed by 100 zeroes… Larry Page married Lucy Southworth in December 2007; Southworth studied biomedical informatics as a doctoral candidate at Stanford. They have two children, per a 2019 report from CNN: “A son born in 2009 and another child born in 2011.”