Larry Page (March 26, 1973)

For all of us, today’s Google web site is a major source of information that we are looking in the internet and we have to know that this company was introduced to the world in 1998 by two students – Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry Page was born in 1973 in Lansing, Michigan. His father was doing the research in the field of computer technologies in Michigan University while his mother was teaching computer programming in the same campus.

Little Larry started being interested in computers in 6 years age. Following in his father’s footsteps Larry Page after graduating from East Lansing High School he studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan. During his studying Page built the model of inkjet printer made of “Lego”.

The next few years of his life that were spent in Stanford University got him together with future companion Sergey Brin. Together they started working on conceptually new search system that provides its users high-specification search and the results placed according to their importance.

The idea of creation this kind of program had been in Larry’s mind for a long time before he met Sergey, but he was not able to turn it into reality alone. Later on, after this search system was already developed they registered the patent and started carrying out test in a test mode in Stanford University.

Larry with his Google group

 Finally, creative and talented students registered Google Company in September, 1998 opening their first office in a friend’s garage. At the same time, they were trying to find investors, but, unfortunately nobody was interested considering this project as hopeless. Suddenly Google was noticed by journalists and people knew from newspapers, magazines and TV how handy was this website. Obviously, Larry and his colleague needed much more money for a Google’s future development and they decided to take a risk by borrowing 25 million USD from Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital. That investment helped to improve the search systems that allowed serving 3 million requests daily. The genius idea that was realized in Google concept started rapidly gaining popularity and in 2004 it was presented at the broker’s board that significantly increased company’s income, growth and development.

 Today, according to Forbes, Larry Page is one of the richest entrepreneurs in the World according to Forbes with $18.7 billion capital. In addition, Google Company is worth $100 billion.