Sergey Mikhailovich Brin

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin
(Co-founder of Google)

Born- Sergey Brin
August 21, 1973 (age 36)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Education- Univ. of Maryland (B.S., 1993)
Stanford University (M.S., 1995)
Alma mater- University of Maryland
Stanford University
Occupation- Computer scientist, technology innovator,
Entrepreneur
Employer- Google, Inc., Mountain View, California
Title: Co-founder and President
Salary- USD free of wage (2008)[1][2]
Net worth- US$12.0 billion [3]
Known for- co-founder of Google, Inc.
World’s largest internet company
Religious beliefs- Jewish
Spouse(s)- Anne Wojcicki[4]
Children- 1


Early Life-:
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born in Moscow, Russia in 1973 to a Jewish family. When he was 6, Brin's family moved to America where his father became a professor of mathematics and University of Maryland, while his mother worked as a specialist at NASA. Brin was fascinated by computers form a very early age, and received his first computer , from his father, on his ninth birthday. Brin did his schooling from Montessori school in Adelphi, Maryland, after which he enrolled in the University of Maryland to study Computer Science and Mathematics. In 1993, he graduated with high honors and received his Bachelors of Science. Post graduation, he pursued a Masters in Computer Science at Stanford with a graduate fellowship that he received from the National Science Foundation

Google-:
Since his early studies at Stanford, Brin showed much interest in the internet with his work on various papers relating to data mining and pattern extraction. He created a software that made it easy to put scientific papers, often written in TeX format, into HTML format.
Sergey first met Larry Page in 1995, when he was asked to show Larry around the university. As per some accounts, at first, Brin and Larry did not seem to agree on almost any subject. But the two eventually found a shared interest, which was in retrieving information from large data sets. Together, they created a search engine called BackRub which operated on Stanford servers for ever a year. The duo authored their seminal paper - “The Anatomy of a Large-scale Hypertextual Web Search
Engine”. The paper has become the tenth most accessed scientific paper at Stanford University.
The two decided to rename the BackRub engine and christened it 'Google', which is a play on the word 'googol', a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by a hundred zeros. The use of the term reflected their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
When their attempts to sell their idea failed, the duo decided to go into business on their own. They gathered a capital of $1 million to start their own company. Google Inc. went into operation in1998 and opened in a garage at Menlo Park, California. The company grew at a rapid rate and the due to lack of space, the office had to be shifted to its current location at Mount View.
Over the next decade, many new and innovative products have been added to Google steadily increasing the companies scope and reach. Products include Google Earth (satellite photos of the world), Google Chrome (Google's web browser), Orkut (social network platform), Picasa (photo editing software), and several others.

Sergey Brin, Today-:
Currently, with an estimated worth of $18.7 billion, Sergey is ranked 32nd on the Forbes list of world's billionaires.
Despite his success, Brin has been able to maintain a relatively low profile. He is not known for a lavish lifestyle, drives an inexpensive car and still rents a two-bedroom flat. Brin is a keen gymnast and takes trapeze lessons. Like much of the Google staff, Brin often rides around work on roller skates and plays roller hockey during breaks.