Sergey Brin
21 August 1973 – present
Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998 while they were doctoral students at Stanford University. Born in Moscow, he emigrated with his family to the United States as a child. He served as president of Alphabet Inc. from its formation in 2015 until stepping down from that role in December 2019.
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Life events
He was born to Jewish parents, both of whom were mathematicians.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe family left the Soviet Union and settled in Maryland when he was six.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe took a bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe began graduate study on a National Science Foundation fellowship and met Larry Page there in 1995.
Source: en.wikipedia.org"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine", written with Larry Page, set out the PageRank-based prototype.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe company was incorporated and initially operated from a garage in Menlo Park, California.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe company went public on the Nasdaq using an unusual Dutch auction process.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe marriage to the co-founder of 23andMe produced two children and ended in divorce.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgGoogle was reorganised as a subsidiary of the new holding company, with Brin as president until December 2019.
Source: en.wikipedia.org