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Larry Page

26 March 1973 – present

Larry Page is an American computer scientist and businessman, born in East Lansing, Michigan, in 1973. With Sergey Brin he developed the PageRank algorithm as a Stanford graduate student and co-founded Google in 1998. He served as chief executive of Google and later of its parent company Alphabet Inc., stepping down from that role in 2019.

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Born in East Lansing, Michigan
26 March 1973

Lawrence Edward Page was born to two computer science academics.

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Graduated from the University of Michigan
1995

Page received a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering.

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Began doctoral study at Stanford University and met Sergey Brin
1995

Page enrolled in the computer science PhD programme, where he met his future business partner.

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Developed the PageRank algorithm and the BackRub search engine
1996

The research project ranked web pages by their incoming links and became the basis of Google search.

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Co-founded Google
September 1998

Page and Brin incorporated the company and Page became its first chief executive.

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Google held its initial public offering
August 2004

The company listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

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Married Lucinda Southworth
December 2007

The couple have two children.

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Returned as chief executive of Google
2011

Page took back the CEO role from Eric Schmidt.

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Became chief executive of Alphabet Inc.
2015

Google was reorganised as a subsidiary of the new holding company.

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Stepped down as chief executive of Alphabet Inc.
December 2019

Page left the role while remaining a board member and controlling shareholder.

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