The names Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin, Lawrence
"Larry" Page and Eric Emerson Schmidt might not be familiar to you
but the name Google definitely is. The Internet unquestionably changed the way
we see the world, pun intended, but Google, one of the most profitable Internet
companies, gave us access to that world.
Sergey
Brin is a Russian-born computer scientist and Internet
entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google. As of
2013, his personal wealth was approximated to be $24.4 billion. Presently Brin
and Page own about 16 percent of the company. He emigrated to the U.S. from the
Soviet Union as a child and later obtained his undergraduate degree from
the University of Maryland, following in his father's and grandfather's
footsteps by studying Mathematics and Computer Science. After graduating, he enrolled
in Stanford University, one of the most-renowned universities in the States, to
acquire a PhD in Computer Science. There he met Larry Page, not knowing
that their friendship would give the world one of the best inventions of all
time.
Larry
Page was born in Michigan, in the U.S. A lot like Brin, Page’s
father, Carl Page, earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1965 when the
field was still new and being built. Today he is considered a pioneer in
computer science and artificial intelligence. Both he and Page's mother,
Gloria, were Computer Science professors at Michigan State University.
Page obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from
the University of Michigan with honours and a Master of
Science in Computer Science from Stanford University. As of 2013,
Page's personal wealth is estimated to be $20.3 billion, ranking him
number 13 on the Forbes 400 list
of the 400 richest Americans.
At
university, Brin and Page had filled their dormitory room with cheap computers
and used a system created by Brin to build a superior search engine. The
program became extremely popular at Stanford and they put their PhD studies on
hold to start Google in a rented garage. Google began as a privately held
company in 1998 with their mission statement being "to organize the
world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and
its unofficial slogan being "Don't be evil". Brin and Page were
really legends from the very beginning.
Eric
Schmidt came onto the Google scene a little later. He is an American software
engineer who is currently the Executive Chairman of Google. Forbes ranked
Schmidt as the 138th richest person in the world with an estimated
wealth of $8.3 billion in 2013. He attended Princeton University
where he started as an Architecture major but switched majors to earn a B.S.
degree in Electrical Engineering in 1976. Initially, Schmidt was
recruited by Brin and Page as Google’s CEO but in January 2011, Google
announced that he would step down but continue as the Executive Chairman of the
company and act as an adviser to co-founders Page and Brin. Page replaced
Schmidt as the CEO of Google in April 2011.
These
guys, who have given the world something that most people would not be able to
live without, started off with a dream and lots of hard work. Page had said in
an interview that from a very early age he realized that he wanted to invent
things. So he became really interested in technology and business. And from
when he was 12 years old, he knew that he was going to start a company
eventually. Who could’ve known that that company would be Google? Today, Google
is perhaps one of the largest and most important Internet corporations and
probably will be for a long time to come. It offers online productivity
software including email (Gmail), an office
suite (Google Drive), and social networking (Google+). Desktop products
include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos,
and instant messaging. The company leads the development of
the Android mobile operating system and the
browser-only Chrome OS for the netbook known as
a Chromebook. A small start in a rented garage became all this. Never
curse the day of small beginnings.
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