1. Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26,1973 and is an American businessman, computer engineer and computer scientist best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin.
60 Facts About Larry Page
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Larry Page was chief executive officer of Google from 1997 until August 2001 when he stepped down in favor of Eric Schmidt, and then again from April 2011 until July 2015 when he became CEO of its newly formed parent organization Alphabet Inc He held that post until December 4,2019, when he and Brin stepped down from all executive positions and day-to-day roles within the company.
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Larry Page remains an Alphabet board member, employee, and controlling shareholder.
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Larry Page has an estimated net worth of $175 billion as of December 2024, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, and $162.2 billion according to Forbes, making him the sixth-richest person in the world.
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Larry Page has invested in flying car startups Kitty Hawk and Opener.
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Lawrence Edward Larry Page was born on March 26,1973, in Lansing, Michigan.
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Larry Page's mother is Jewish; his maternal grandfather later immigrated to Israel, though Page's household while growing up was secular.
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Larry Page's father was a computer science professor at Michigan State University and his mother Gloria was an instructor in computer programming at Lyman Briggs College at the same institution.
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Larry Page's parents divorced when he was eight years old, but he maintained a good relationship both with his mother Gloria and his father's long-term partner and MSU professor Joyce Wildenthal.
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When Larry Page was six years old, in 1979, his father brought home an Exidy Sorcerer computer, which Larry soon mastered and began using for schoolwork.
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Larry Page was an avid reader during his youth, writing in his 2013 Google founders letter: "I remember spending a huge amount of time pouring [sic] over books and magazines".
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Larry Page played instruments and studied music composition while growing up.
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Larry Page became the "first kid in his elementary school to turn in an assignment from a word processor".
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Larry Page attended Okemos Montessori School in Okemos, Michigan, from ages two to seven.
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Larry Page attended East Lansing High School, graduating in 1991.
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Larry Page received a Bachelor of Science with a major in computer engineering with honors from the University of Michigan in 1995 and a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University in 1998.
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Larry Page developed a business plan for a company that would use software to build a music synthesizer during this time.
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Larry Page considered doing research on telepresence and self-driving cars during this time.
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Larry Page focused on the problem of finding out which web pages linked to a given page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks as valuable information for that page.
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John Battelle, co-founder of Wired magazine, wrote that Larry Page had reasoned that:.
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Unaware of exactly what he was getting into, Larry Page began building out his crawler.
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In 1998, Brin and Larry Page incorporated Google, Inc with the initial domain name of "Googol", derived from a number that consists of one followed by one hundred zeros representing the vast amount of data that the search engine was intended to explore.
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In 1999, Larry Page experimented with smaller servers so Google could fit more into each square meter of the third-party warehouses the company rented for their servers.
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Larry Page even documented his management tenets for his team to use as a reference:.
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Larry Page believed that the faster Google's search engine returned answers, the more it would be used.
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Larry Page pushed for keeping Google's home page famously sparse in its design because it would help the page load faster.
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Eric Schmidt, who had been hired as chairman of Google in March 2001, left his full-time position as the CEO of Novell to take the same role at Google in August of the same year, and Larry Page moved aside to assume the president of products role.
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Larry Page always acted in consultation with Page and Brin when he embarked on initiatives such as the hiring of an executive team and the creation of a sales force management system.
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Larry Page remained the boss at Google in the eyes of the employees, as he gave final approval on all new hires, and it was Larry Page who provided the signature for the IPO, the latter making him a billionaire at the age of 30.
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Larry Page led the acquisition of Android for $50 million in 2005 to fulfill his ambition to place handheld computers in the possession of consumers so that they could access Google anywhere.
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Larry Page became passionate about Android and spent large amounts of time with Android CEO and cofounder Andy Rubin.
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Larry Page had changed his thinking during his time away from the CEO role, as he eventually concluded that ambitious goals required a harmonious team dynamic.
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In 2014, Larry Page sold Motorola Mobility for $2.9 billion to Personal Computer maker, Lenovo which represented a loss in value of $9.5 billion over two years.
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Larry Page ventured into hardware and Google unveiled the Chromebook in May 2012.
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Larry Page participated in a March 2014 TedX conference that was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Larry Page responded to a question about corporations, noting that corporations largely get a "bad rap", which he stated was because they were probably doing the same incremental things they were doing "50 or 20 years ago".
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Larry Page went on to juxtapose that kind of incremental approach to his vision of Google counteracting calcification through driving technology innovation at a high rate.
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Larry Page mentioned Nikola Tesla with regard to invention and commercialization:.
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Larry Page announced a major management restructure in October 2014 so that he would no longer need to be responsible for day-to-day product-related decision making.
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Larry Page maintained that he would continue as the unofficial "chief product officer".
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Larry Page has not been on any press conferences since 2015 and has not presented at product launches or earnings calls since 2013.
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The Bloomberg Businessweek termed the reorganization into Alphabet a clever retirement plan allowing Larry Page to retain control over Google, at the same time relinquishing all responsibilities over it.
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On December 3,2019, Larry Page announced that he would step down from the position of Alphabet CEO and be replaced by Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
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Larry Page is an investor in Tesla Motors co-founded by friend and fellow billionaire Elon Musk.
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Larry Page has invested in renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.
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Larry Page was a strategic backer in the Opener and Kitty Hawk startups, developing aerial vehicles for consumer travel.
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Larry Page founded Dynatomics, a Palo Alto-based startup established in 2023, that uses artificial intelligence to optimize product manufacturing processes.
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Larry Page is interested in the socio-economic effects of advanced intelligent systems and how advanced digital technologies can be used to create abundance, provide for people's needs, shorten the workweek, and mitigate the potential detrimental effects of technological unemployment.
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Larry Page helped to set up Singularity University, a transhumanist think-tank.
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On February 18,2005, Larry Page bought a 9,000 square feet Spanish Colonial Revival architecture house in Palo Alto, California, designed by American artistic polymath Pedro Joseph de Lemos, a former curator of the Stanford Art Museum and founder of the Carmel Art Institute, after the historic building had been on the market for years with an asking price of US$7.95 million.
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In 2007, Larry Page married Lucinda Southworth on Necker Island, the Caribbean island owned by Richard Branson.
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Larry Page and Southworth have two children, born in 2009 and 2011 respectively.
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In 2009, Larry Page began purchasing properties and tearing down homes adjacent to his home in Palo Alto to make room for a large ecohouse.
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Larry Page applied for Green Point Certification, with points given for use of recycled and low or no-VOC materials and for a roof garden with solar panels.
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In 2011, Larry Page bought the $45-million 193-foot superyacht Senses.
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Later on, Larry Page announced on his Google+ profile in May 2013 that his right vocal cord is paralyzed from a cold that he contracted the previous summer, while his left cord was paralyzed in 1999, and that the doctors were unable to identify the exact cause.
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The Google+ post revealed that Larry Page had made a large donation to a vocal-cord nerve-function research program at the Voice Health Institute in Boston.
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In October 2013, Business Insider reported that Larry Page's paralysis were caused by an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and prevented him from undertaking Google quarterly earnings conference calls for an indefinite period.
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Larry Page had been living in Fiji with his family during the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Larry Page has purchased multiple private islands across the Caribbean and South Pacific, including the Hans Lollik Island in 2014, Eustatia Island, Cayo Norte in 2018, and Tavarua in 2020.