Larry Page

Larry Page, an American computer scientist and co-founder of Google Inc, was born in March 26, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan to a Jewish family. He is the son of Dr. Carl Victor Page who is a computer science professor of Michigan State University.

He did his schooling from Okemos Montessori School in Okemos, Michigan in 1979. In 1991 he graduated from East Lansing High School; and later attended the University of Michigan and completed Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering with honors; and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. In 1999, he enrolled at Stanford University for PhD in computer science and collaborated with Sergei Brin for the research on search engine algorithm. Together, in 1998, they founded Google.

On August 19 2004, Google became a public company, trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange as GOOG.

Google Begins

As a research project at Stanford University, Page and Brin 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 refers to the No. 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 an average of 5.9 billion searches per day in 2013. Headquartered in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Google held its initial public offering in August 2004, making Page and Brin billionaires.

Recent Years

In 2006, Google purchased the most popular website for user-submitted streaming videos, YouTube, for $1.65 billion in stock.

In September 2013, Page was ranked No. 13 on the "Forbes 400" list of the richest people in America. That October, he was ranked No. 17 on Forbes' 2013 "Most Powerful People" list. Now serving as Google's CEO, Page continues to share responsibility for the company's day-to-day operations with Brin, who now serves as director of special projects for Google, and Eric Schmidt, the company's executive chairman.

Awards and Recognition:

The X PRIZE selected Page as a trustee for their board and the World Economic Forum honored Page by calling him the Global Leader of Tomorrow.

IE Business School awarded Page with an honorary MBA in 2003 “for embodying the entrepreneurial spirit and lending momentum to the creation of new businesses….”

In 2004, Page, along with Brin, received the Marconi Foundation Prize, which is called to be the “Highest Award in Engineering,” and was chosen among Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University.

In the same year in 2004, ABC World News Tonight honored him with the “Persons of the Week” by

After 1 year, in 2005, Page, along with Brin, was selected the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 2009, Page, along with Brin, was in fifth position of Forbes’ “The World’s Most Powerful People’s list

According to Forbes Magazine 2011, he was the world’s 24th richest person and 14th richest man in the United States. In addition, in the list of the world’s most powerful person, Forbes places on him on #30 position.

Philanthropic Work:

He contributes to renewable energy technology. In addition, with the assistance of Google.org (a philanthropic wing of Google) Page endorses plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments. He has invested in alternative energy companies including Tesla Motors.