Larry Page

Computer Scientist / Business Personality

Name at birth: Lawrence Edward Page

Larry Page and Sergey Brin created the search engine Google, which developed into the multi-billion-dollar company Google, Inc. Page's father was a professor of computer science at Michigan State, and Larry studied computing at the University of Michigan. He 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 both men billionaires at age 27. Along with company CEO Eric Schmidt, Page and Brin continue to run Google; Page's title is listed by Google as "Co-Founder and President, Products."

Extra credit: Google is a play on the mathematical term googol -- a one followed by 100 zeroes... Page married Lucy Southworth in December 2007; Southworth studied biomedical informatics as a doctoral candidate at Stanford.

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