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Lawrence Edward Page [2] [3] [4] (born March 26, 1973) is an American businessman, computer engineer and computer scientist best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin.
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google with Larry Page. He was the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc. , until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019. [ 1 ]
Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg were cited by Page and Brin as being critical to the development of Google. Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd later co-authored with Page and Brin the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998. Héctor García-Molina and Jeff Ullman were also cited as contributors to the project ...
[11] [12] [13] Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is one of the five Big Tech companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California.
[1] [2] He bought 160,000 Google shares for $800 when the company was founded in 1998, which would be valued at more than $200 million when Google went public in 2004, and more than $13 billion as of 2021. [3] In 1997 Hassan founded FindMail, later renamed to eGroups.com, an email list management web site.
[29] [30] [31] Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015, [32] after previously being appointed Product Chief by CEO, Larry Page. On October 24, 2015, he stepped into the new position at the completion of the formation of Alphabet Inc., the new holding company for the Google company family. [33] [31] [32]
He recalled the search for the right supplier and organizing the production line in Asia left the company "pretty close to being dead". [15] In a 2019 interview, Park said, "Going public is good for investors and employees. Ours was the largest consumer electronics IPO in US history." [16] Google purchased Fitbit in 2019 for $2.1 billion. [12]
During his time at Google [citation needed], the company has been named the Best Company to Work for over 30 times around the world and received over 100 awards as a top employer. [6] In 2010, Bock was named "Human Resources Executive of the Year" by HR Resources Magazine . [ 7 ]