Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is co-founder of Google, Inc., the world’s largest internet company, based on its search engine and online advertising technology. He is ranked by Forbes as the 32nd richest person in the world. In 2007 he and co-founder Larry Page were together ranked #1 of the “50 Most Important People on the Web” by PC World Magazine.

Brin emigrated to the United States at the age of six due to his family’s educational barriers in the Soviet Union. Earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, he followed in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps by studying mathematics, double-majoring in computer science. After graduation, he moved to Stanford to acquire a Ph.D in computer science. There he met Larry Page, who quickly became his intellectual soul-mate and close friend. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin’s data mining system to build a superior search engine. The program became popular at Stanford and they suspended their Ph.D studies to start up Google in a rented garage.

The Economist magazine referred to Brin as “Enlightenment Man,” and someone who believes that “knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance,” a philosophy which is summed up by Google’s motto of making all the world’s information “universally accessible and useful.”

Other Information

• Born  Sergey Mikhailovich Brin, August 21, 1973 (1973-08-21), Moscow, Soviet Union
• Education  Univ. of Maryland (B.S., 1993), Stanford University (M.S., 1995)
• Occupation  Computer scientist, technology innovator, entrepreneur
• Employer  Google, Inc., Mountain View, California
• Title: Co-founder and President
• Salary  USD $1 (2008)
• Net worth  US$15.9 billion
• Known for  Co-founder of Google, Inc. world’s largest internet company
• Spouse(s)  Anne Wojcicki
• Website : stanford.edu/~sergey