The Genius of Larry Page - Bidness Etc

Larry Page While at Michigan University, Larry made an inkjet printer using LEGO Bricks Born in Michigan Both parents were computer experts and it was only natural that Larry developed his interest in the field from an early age Larry Page attended the University of Michigan to study computer engineering and graduated with honors Brin was Page's senior in college Sergey Brin and Larry Page met at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California, when they were pursuing their PhD's and was asked to show him around the campus. That is how the two first met. Sergey Brin and Larry Page began a research project (Stanford Digital Library Project) that aimed "to develop enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library" They also collaborated for a web search engine they initially named 'BackRub' Brin and Page have great differences of They wrote a paper "Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" opinion which they admire as they believe that it has contributed to which set the their success foundation for Google The name for their engine was derived from a mathematical term "Googol," which is a number that is equal to 1 followed by 100 zeros and expressed as 10100. The considered it to reflect their mission After raising of organizing the large amount of information available $1 million in capital, Page and Brin went to Burger King to celebrate their success on the Internet In August, the first version of Google: google.stanford.edu was launched Larry Page, along with Sergey Brin, gives the utmost importance to the SAT scores of their employees during the recruitment The Google domain name was registered Raised $1 million from family, friends and other investors to launch Google with Sergey Brin process 18 million people used Google to search the internet in one day Company's Current Profile Larry Page was named a World Revenues: $51 billion (2012) Economic Forum Global Leader for Market Value: : $362 billion (as of December 2013) Tomorrow Employees: 53,861 Sergey Brin and Larry Page were honored with the Marconi Prize Google formed the not-for-profit philanthropic entity Google.org Addressing Michigan University in a commencement address, Page talked about how he Google raised $4.2 billion through its second stock offering got the idea for Google in the middle of the night: "When I suddenly woke up, I Google acquired most popular video streaming website, YouTube, for $1.65 was thinking: what if we could download the billion in stock whole Web and just keep the links and ... I grabbed a pen and started writing!" Google was nominated the world's most attractive employer for graduating students It is the world's largest search engine with almost over 200 million queries received each day According to Forbes, Page was the 24th richest person in the At one time, he dated Marissa Mayer, who is now CEO of Yahoo world in 2010 with a net worth of $17.5 billion Google Google headquarters has a strong air filter system installed because of the co-founders' strong sense of smell Page is suffering from a mysterious illness that caused him to skip shareholders meetings because he lost his voice SOURCES: Company Data, SEC filings, Bloomberg Professional Services BIDNESS Etc. DISCLAIMER: Bidness Etc(TM) and related marks are owned by Bidness Etc. Any other trademarks appearing on this website are the property of their respective owners, and are not used to indicate the origin of goods or services offered or provided by Bidness Etc herein or to suggest approval for or affiliation with Bidness Etc. 1973 1994 1995 1996 1996 1996 1996 1996 1997 1998 2000 2002 2004 2004 2005 2006 2010