Larry Page “Life Story”

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September 16, 2013

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Lawrence “Larry” Page was born March 26, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan,

United States. He has an older brother Carl Victor Page Jr. His father, Carl Page,

earned a Ph.D . in computer science in 1965 and both he and Page’s mother, Gloria,

were computer science professors at Michigan State University. Larry Page is an

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Google,

alongside Sergey Brin.

Page attended the Okemos Montessori School

(now called Montessori Radmoor) in Okemos,

Michigan from 1975 to 1979, and graduated

from East Lansing High School in 1991. He holds

a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from

the University of Michigan with honors and a Master of

Science in computer science from Stanford University.[ His attraction to computers

started when he was six years old when he got to "play with the stuff lying around". He

said that "from a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became

really interested in technology and business. Probably from when I was 12, I knew I was

going to start a company eventually".

Brin and Page originally met in March 1995 during a spring orientation of new

Ph.D. candidates. Brin, who had already been in the program for two years, was

assigned to show some students, including Page, around campus, and they later

became friends. In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, Inc. Brin and Page developed

the PageRank algorithm, and realized that it could be used to build a search engine far

superior to existing ones. It relied on a new kind of technology that analyzed the

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relevance of the back links that connected one Web page to another. In August 1996,

the initial version of Google was made available, still on the Stanford University Web

site. Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric

Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google.

In January 2011 Google announced that Page would replace Schmidt as CEO in

April the same year. Both Page and Brin earn an annual compensation of one dollar. On

April 4, 2011, Page officially became the chief executive of Google, while Schmidt

stepped down to become executive chairman of Google. Page also sits on the Board of

Directors of Google. In 2011, he was ranked 24th on the Forbes list of billionaires and

as the 11th richest person in the United States. As of October 2012, the Bloomberg

Billionaires Index lists Page as the 27th richest man in the world with an estimated net

worth of 21.1 billion.

For a long time, Google was boring. It bought companies and buried them. It

released new products, like Buzz and Wave, that nobody cared about. Larry

Page started to change that when he reclaimed control of the company last spring. He

cut a bunch of failures, put new leaders in charge, launched the company's first ever

successful social product, Google+.

Larry Page has disclosed a problem with his vocal cords that makes it difficult for

him to speak and breathe occasionally. His left vocal cord has been paralyzed since

coming down with a severe cold 14 years ago, while Google was still in its formative

stages. That issue was compounded last year with another cold that Page says

impaired his right vocal cord, though it still has limited movement. Larry Page is a big

lover of outdoor adventure sports and Kite Boarding is his favorite to get all relaxed in

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and out. He frequents Alaska and Necker Island, the private island of Richard Branson

for kite boarding. In 2007, Page married Lucinda Southworth on Necker Island, the

Caribbean island owned by businessman Richard Branson. Southworth is a research

scientist, and the sister of actress and model Carrie Southworth. Page and Southworth

have two children, born in 2009 and 2011.

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