Happy Birthday to Co-founder of Google Sergey Brin
Today is the day when god has given birth to the legend of our Century, The person who Co-founded, Director of Special Projects, Google along with Larry Page. So let’s celebrate today and wish Mr. Sergey Brin Happy Birthday.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin he was born on August 21, 1973, is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, together with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the most profitable Internet companies. As of October 2014, his personal wealth was estimated to be about US$29.9 billion.
According to Hurun Global Rich List 2015, he is jointly one of three people listed as 18th richest in the world (21 overall) with a net worth of US$30 billion.
Brin immigrated to the United States with his family from the Soviet Union at the age of 6. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Maryland, following in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps by studying mathematics, as well as computer science.
After graduation, he moved to Stanford University to acquire a Ph.D. in computer science. There he met Page, with whom he later became friends. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin’s data mining system to build a web search engine. The program became popular at Stanford and they suspended their Ph.D. studies to start up Google in a rented garage.
Today it is easy for us to find out anything about anyone with the help of search engine Google. But do you know how and when Google started?
Mr. Sergey Brin (Google Co-founder)
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both Ph.D. students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Born-August 21, 1973 (age 42)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Residence-Los Altos, California
Nationality-American
Ethnicity-Jewish
Citizenship-American
Soviet (1973, automatically)
Study-Alma mater University of Maryland (BS 1993)
Stanford University (MS 1995)
Known for-Co-Founder of Google
Directing-Google X
Net worth-US$ 28.9 billion (June 2015)
Spouse(s)-Anne Wojcicki (2007-2015; divorced)
Children-2
Website-Google.com – Sergey Brin
Google success story
According to Forbes His wealth on 21st august 2015 is today is about $33.8 Billion. The company’s stock surged to an all-time high in July 2015 after new Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat promised to rein in expenses and after the company reported growth in mobile search and strength at YouTube.
Really looking at his achievement, he indeed deserves a salute!
Author: Ms. Sneha Singh (My life, My inspiration)