Larry Page (Former CEO of Google) Biography

Larry is the co-founder of Google alongside fellow business magnate, entrepreneur, and computer scientist Sergey Brin. They have served the company in different capacities, earning themselves a tremendous amount of wealth. Beyond his work with Google, Page has also spent time in Alphabet, Inc. — the multinational tech conglomerate and Google’s parent company.

Larry Page Biography

Full Name	Lawrence Edward Page
Nickname	Larry Page
Date of Birth	26 March 1973
School	East Lansing High School
Profession	American business magnate, Computer Scientist and Internet Entrepreneur

Larry Page Biodata

Sex	Male
Date Of Birth	26 March 1973
Age	49 Years (as in 2024)
Profession / Occupation	American business magnate, Computer Scientist and Internet Entrepreneur
Mother Tongue	English
Religion	Formal religion.
Nation	American
Zodiac Sign	Aries
Height / Weight	5′ 11” /74 kg
Companies	Co-founding Google Co-founding Alphabet Inc. Co-creator PageRank
Money Factor	Net Worth: 123 Billion

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Physical Appearance

Height in Centimetres	180 cm
Height in Meters	1.80 m
Height in Feet Inches	5 Feet 11 Inches
Weight	74 kg
Body Measurement	34-27-35
Chest Size	34 inches
Waist Size	27 inches
Biceps Size	35 inches
Eye Colour	Brown Dark
Hair Colour	Brown Dark

Larry Page Educational Qualification

Education Qualification	University of Michigan (BS) Stanford University (MS)
School	East Lansing High School
College / University	Interlochen Center for the Arts Montessori Radmoor

Larry Page’s Family Details

Father	Carl Victor Page
Mother	Gloria Page
Brothers	Carl Page
Sisters	Beverly Page
Marital Status	Married
Wife	Lucinda Southworth ​(m. 2007)
Daughters	Not Known
Sons	Two sons

Larry Page Net Worth

Larry Page is an American billionaire entrepreneur who has a net worth of 11,550 crores USD. Larry Page earned his fortune as the co-founder of Google, which is today known by its umbrella parent company Alphabet. Larry Page was CEO of Google twice. He initially served as CEO from the company’s founding in September 1998 until August 2001 when he ceded the position to Eric Schmidt. He then resumed the position of CEO from April 4, 2011, to October 2, 2015, when the company was restructured, and Alphabet Inc. was created as Google’s parent company. Upon stepping aside in 2015, Larry ceded the CEO position the Sundar Pichai. Larry Page created Google with Sergey Brin while they were both graduate students at Stanford.

Estimated Net Worth	11,550 crores USD
Annual Salary	Not Available
Income Source	Co-Founder of Google

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Larry Page: Early Life

Before heading Google, Larry Page was an ordinary guy from Lansing, Michigan. Born in the spring of 1973, Page is the son of Gloria Page and Carl Victor Page Sr. Remarkably, his parents were computer savvy. Gloria was a computer programming instructor at the Michigan State University’s Lyman Briggs College, while Carl was a professor of computer science. With this background, it’s easy to see why Page developed an interest in computers from an early age.

Gloria and Carl were incredibly supportive of Page and all his endeavors (both educational and creative). In interviews, Larry has recalled growing up in a home littered with popular science magazines and computer parts. He would spend his days at home thumbing through the periodicals, tinkering with the random tech, and even receiving music lessons on the side. This combination of loving, encouraging parents and a near-constant immersion in the world of computer science clearly had quite the impact on Page’s future accomplishments.

His older brother Carl Victor Page Jr. was of a similar breed. As Page grew older, Carl Jr. would join him in assembling and disassembling computers and parts. Page has said he knew he would eventually start a computer company. After graduating from East Lansing High School in 1991, he went on to receive a degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s in computer science from Stanford University. During this time, Page was fixated on innovations such as solar cars, driverless vehicles, and music synthesizers.

Career

• Page, along with Brin, developed the PageRank algorithm, which was the foundation of Google’s search engine technology. The algorithm analyzes links between web pages to determine their relevance and importance, and this approach revolutionized the way people searched for information on the internet. In 1998, the two launched Google as a search engine that quickly became the dominant player in the market. Page served as Google’s CEO from 1998 to 2001, and again from 2011 to 2015.
• Under Page’s leadership, Google expanded its operations into a variety of new areas, including email, web analytics, and mobile operating systems. He also oversaw the development of numerous Google products, such as Google Maps, Google Books, and Google News. In addition to his work at Google, Page has invested in a number of other companies and start-ups, including Tesla, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), and Planetary Resources.
• He has also invested in various renewable energy technologies, including Tesla Motors, and actively promotes the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric cars and alternative energy investments through Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm. Additionally, he supports the development of aerial vehicles for consumer travel as a strategic backer of the Opener startup.
• Moreover, Page has a strong interest in understanding the societal impact of advanced intelligent systems and digital technologies. He believes in utilizing these advancements to create abundance and provide for people’s needs while reducing the workweek and mitigating the negative effects of technological unemployment. To support this vision, he helped establish Singularity University, a transhumanist think-tank that receives funding from Google and offers scholarships to students.
• Page has received numerous awards and accolades for his work in the technology industry. In 2002, he was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow, and in 2004, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate of science from the University of Michigan. Page has also been listed among Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” several times.

BackRub

• Now working under the name BackRub, Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s first order of business was to co-write a research paper: “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine.” The gist of it argued that the World Wide Web was nothing more than a series of loosely connected citations, a.k.a. links. If one could establish a way to track, organize, and index these citations, then Web users could hypothetically browse the entire internet easily.
• Secondly, they defined what’s now known as the PageRank algorithm: a way to count and qualify the number of links on a page in an effort to determine the website’s importance. (The logic being that the more links and backlinks a website has, the more important it likely is.) This thinking helped the two create the most advanced search engine the world had seen thus far.
• In constructing BackRub, Page and Brin filled filled both of their rooms with computer equipment. Their project was so powerful, it actually began interfering with Stanford’s entire computing infrastructure. Taking any and every spare computer part available, the two assembled a search engine strong enough to handle multiple searches by multiple searchers at once. By 1996, BackRub — still rooted on Stanford’s computing infrastructure — was ready for public Internet use. By 1998, BackRub saw 10,000 searches a day.

Google

By the fall of 1998, it was clear that BackRub’s true potential was outgrowing BackRub’s actual capabilities. As a result, Larry Page and Sergey Brin took their search engine to the next level. It was then that they incorporated incorporated Google, Inc. Page named himself CEO, while Brin was named president of the newfound company. The goal of Google was to go far beyond the limits of Stanford’s infrastructure. They wanted to go global, hoping to organize the entire planet’s online information and make it both useful and accessible for all. With $1 million and a dream, they headed to Mountain View.

Page and company’s biggest hurdles were twofold: To reduce the size of the search engine’s physical hardware, and speed up the computing power of the search engine’s virtual software. By 1999, Page and co. found a way to fit their servers into a number of square meters in rented third-party warehouses. By 2000, Google had indexed more than a billion sites. It was now the most comprehensive, most thorough search engine in history.

The following year, at the pressure of much-needed investors, Page stepped down from his position as CEO to allow a more experienced person to steer Google in the right direction. He obliged, and Novell CEO Eric Schmidt took his place. Page then became President of Products. The move proved to be the right one, as Schmidt led Google through an era of profound growth and massive expansion. Even with Schmidt in his former spot, Page was still viewed as the boss to Google employees. He gave final approval on almost everything, including the decision to go public in 2004. Page was now a billionaire.

Alphabet

In 2011, Schmidt stepped down as Google CEO and allowed Page to resume his post. (Despite the fact that Page had essentially been acting as CEO all those years regardless.) Schmidt’s leadership was nevertheless vital to Google’s success, lifting the company up to a $180 billion valuation and nearly 25,000 employees in all. Still, while Page was able to exert significant control over Google’s product development throughout the 2000s, the former CEO still found himself feeling more and more disconnected from his greatest accomplishment.

Page spent the early 2010s consolidating, redesigning, reorganizing, and overhauling the company from the top down. More autonomy for Google executives, more collaboration between the development teams, new looks for several of the company’s main products and features… Seemingly nothing was immune to Page’s companywide rejuvenation efforts. By 2013, more than 70 of the products and services at Google had been shut down. Even more had been consolidated. Page’s work during this time helped to establish Google as the clean, simple, refined company we know it as today.

Still, Page suffered from that same disconnect he was feeling at the start of the decade. When the opportunity arose for Page to restructure Google and establish a parent holding company above the search engine, he took it. In August of 2015, Page left his post as CEO of Google and became CEO of Alphabet, Inc. He described the move as an effort to make Google even cleaner and hold the company even more accountable and transparent than ever before. With this move, Page could keep control of Google without having any day-to-day tasks there. He stepped down as CEO of Alphabet in 2019.

Larry Page Achievement

Larry Page has received numerous awards and accolades throughout his career, including:

• Marconi Prize (2004): Page, along with co-founder Sergey Brin, received the Marconi Prize in recognition of their work on the development of the PageRank algorithm and the founding of Google.

• Webby Awards Lifetime Achievement (2005): Page and Brin were recognized for their contributions to the internet and were awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the Webby Awards.

• Webby Awards Lifetime Achievement (2005): Page and Brin were recognized for their contributions to the internet and were awarded the Lifetime Achievement award at the Webby Awards.

• Global Economy Prize (2009): Page received the Global Economy Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in recognition of his contributions to economic globalization.

• Communication and Society Award (2010): Page and Brin were honored by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania for their contributions to the field of communication.

• Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award (2011): Page received the Golden Plate Award from the Academy of Achievement for his contributions to the field of technology.

• World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award (2013): Page was recognized by the World Economic Forum for his leadership in the technology industry and was awarded the Crystal Award.

• Bloomberg’s Most Influential People in the World (2013, 2014): Page was listed among the most influential people in the world by Bloomberg in both 2013 and 2014.

• Carnegie Mellon University’s Andrew Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Science (2018): Page was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Prize in recognition of his contributions to the field of mind and brain science.

Success Story of Larry Page

• Larry Page is one of the co-founders of Google, and he has had a very successful career in business. In this article, we will take a look at some of the key factors that have contributed to Larry Page’s success.
• First and foremost, Larry Page is a very intelligent individual. He was born in 1974, and from an early age he showed signs of being exceptional at math and science.
• Page initially studied electrical engineering at Stanford University, but he soon realized that he had a greater interest in computer science.
• In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google. At the time, Google was just a small startup company with no revenues.
• However, thanks to Page’s intelligence and Brin’s innovation, Google quickly became one of the most successful businesses in the world.
• Page has always been focused on making Google the best possible company it can be. He is constantly looking for ways to improve Google’s technology, marketing efforts, and employee morale.
• Another key factor behind Larry Page’s success is his willingness to take risks. Early on in his career, Page invested some of his own money into Google stock (which at the time was worth nothing).
• This decision proved to be extremely risky, but it paid off spectacularly when Google rose to become one of the world’s leading internet companies.
• Over the years, Larry Page has also made several other important business decisions. For example, he co-founded YouTube (a video sharing website) with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Google also acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006.
• All in all, Larry Page has been a very successful entrepreneur. He has created one of the world’s leading internet companies, and he has also made several major strategic decisions that have contributed to Google’s success.
• If you’re looking for inspiration or just want to know what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur, read on!

Larry Page’s Leadership Role at Google

Larry Page is one of the co-founders of Google, and he has played a leadership role in the company since its inception.

He has also been involved in several other ventures, including Sun Microsystems and Inktomi. Larry Page’s leadership skills have helped Google become one of the world’s largest and most influential companies. Here’s a look at some of his notable achievements:

• He was one of the founding members of Google, and he served as its CEO from 1998 to 2011. During that time, Google grew from a small startup to a multinational corporation with a budget of more than $30 billion.
• Larry Page has also been involved in several other ventures, including Sun Microsystems and Inktomi. While at Sun, he co-founded Google’s original search engine, which later became known as Google search. At Inktomi, he was instrumental in developing the first commercial web spam filter.
• Larry Page has also been widely recognized for his contributions to technology. He was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2005, and he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Stanford University in 2013.

The Rise of Alphabet Inc.

Larry Page is the co-founder of Google, one of the world’s most influential companies. Born in 1973, Page enrolled at Stanford University after high school and began working on search engine software with Sergey Brin. The pair founded Google in 1998 and it quickly became one of the world’s most popular websites.

Today, Alphabet Inc. (Google’s parent company) operates more than 20 businesses including Android, YouTube, Google Maps, Chrome, and Waymo.

Its revenue reached $135 billion in 2018 and its stock is worth $850 billion. With such a successful history, it’s no wonder Page is one of the richest men in the world.

Larry Page’s Future Plans

Larry Page, co-founder of Google, has made a name for himself as one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of Larry’s future plans and see how they could impact the tech industry.

Google Glass

Google Glass is a wearable computer that was released to the public in late 2012. The device was met with mixed reactions, but its potential is still being explored.

Some believe that Glass could revolutionize the way people interact with technology, while others are concerned about privacy issues.

If Google can develop a popular app for Glass and work out any kinks in the system, we could see a major shift in how people use technology.

Self-driving cars

One of Larry’s long-term goals is to make self-driving cars a reality. He believes that this technology will change the way we live and work and could have a huge impact on the economy.

If self-driving cars achieve widespread adoption, it could lead to massive reductions in traffic congestion and pollution levels.

Robotics and artificial intelligence

Google has been heavily involved in research into robotics and artificial intelligence for years now, and this area of technology is only going to become more important in the future.

Robotics technologies are already starting to replace human workers in factories and other industrial settings, and AI is expected to play an even bigger role in the future. Larry believes that these technologies have the potential to redefine what it means to be human.

Space exploration

Google is also involved in space exploration, and Larry is committed to finding new and innovative ways to use space technology for the benefit of humanity.

He has said that he sees space as the next frontier for Google, and he is currently working on a number of projects aimed at exploring space.

If these initiatives are successful, it could lead to even more widespread adoption of Google technologies.

Larry Page Famous Quotes

• “The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long way from that.”
• “If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.”
• “We don’t have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.”

Founding and Growth of Google

• Page and Brin decided to incorporate their project as a company. Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim played a significant role in financing the company as he wrote a check for $100,000 to the entity that had not even come into existence as yet.
• In September 1998, the project, now renamed as ‘Google’, was officially incorporated as a company. Eric Schmidt was appointed as the CEO in 2001 while Page and Brin became the presidents of products and technology.
•  In 2004, Google launched Orkut, a social networking site, and introduced Google Desktop search. The same year, Google held its Initial Public Offering (IPO), which made Page and Brin millionaires. The philanthropic wing of Google, Google.org, was formed to contribute towards social issues and causes.
• The year 2005 was quite productive for Google. Google Maps, Blogger Mobile, Google Reader, and iGoogle were released that year. The next year, Google acquired Youtube and introduced the chat feature in Gmail.
• Google entered into a partnership with China Mobile and Salesforce.com in 2007. The company also signed partnerships to make Google Apps for Education freely available to thousands of students in Kenya and Rwanda.
• In 2008, Google launched Google Sites and a new version of Google Earth. Google Health, a personal health information centralization service, was also released in the same year, but the service was discontinued in 2011 when it could not achieve the desired impact.
•  Picasa for Mac was launched in January 2009, followed by Google Latitude and the latest version of Google Earth. Google Ventures, a venture capital fund for supporting new technology companies, was also introduced the same year.
• In 2010, Google acquired Aardvark and Picnik. The Google Apps Marketplace, a new online store for integrated business applications, was launched to enable customers to manage cloud applications easily.
•  In January 2011, Larry Page became the CEO. Eric Emerson Schmidt, the former CEO, continues to serve the company as Executive Chairman. Google acquired Admeld and Zagat, intending to provide improvised services to its clients.

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