Sergey Brin

             
                               Name                : Sergey Brin
                               Occupation       : Entrepreneur, Computer Programmer, Engineer, Inventor
                               Birth Date         : August 21, 1973 (Age: 40)
                               Education          : University of Maryland at College Park, Stanford University
                               Place of Birth    : Moscow, Russia
                               Full Name         : Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin
                               AKA                : Sergey Brin
                               Zodiac Sign       : Leo

Best Known For

Sergey Brin created Google, the world's most popular search engine. Brin and Larry Page, Google's co-creator, still manage the company and are billionaires.

 Synopsis
Sergey Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow, Russia. His family emigrated to the United States to escape Jewish persecution in 1979. He met Larry Page at Stanford University and the two created a search engine that would sort web pages based on popularity. They named the search engine "Google," based on the mathematical term "googol." After it's launch in 1998, Google has become the most popular search engine in the world.


 Early Life
Internet entrepreneur and computer scientist Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow, Russia. The son of a Soviet mathematician economist, Brin and his family emigrated to the United States to escape Jewish persecution in 1979. After receiving his degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park, Brin entered Stanford University, where he met Larry Page. Both students were completing doctorates in computer science.



Google

As a research project at Stanford University, Brin and Page created a search engine that listed results according to the popularity of the pages, after concluding that the most popular result would often be the most useful. They called the search engine Google after the mathematical term "Googol," which is a 1 followed by 100 zeros, to reflect their mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the Web.

After raising $1 million from family, friends and other investors, the pair launched the company in 1998. Google has since become the world's most popular search engine, receiving more than 200 million queries each day. Headquartered in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Google held its initial public offering in August 2004, making Brin and Page billionaires. Brin continues to share the company's day-to-day responsibilities with Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt. In 2006, Google purchased the most popular Web site for user-submitted streaming videos, YouTube, for $1.65 billion in stock.


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