Larry Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin. He is the CEO of Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company. Page is the 12th richest person in the world, with a net worth of $50.8 billion as of March 2020.
Table of Contents:
1. Early life and education
2. Career
3. Philanthropy
4. Personal life
5. Awards and honors
6. Net worth
7. Top Larry Page Quotes
Early life and education
Larry Page was born on March 26, 1973, in East Lansing, Michigan, to Carl Victor Page Sr., a professor of computer science at Michigan State University, and Gloria Page, a teacher. He has two younger brothers, Carl and Kent. Page was raised in a Jewish household and his parents taught him the importance of giving back.
As a child, Page was extremely curious and loved tinkering with electronics. He built a computer at age 12 from scratch, using old parts from a Xerox printer. When he was 15, he created a software program that helped him land a job at Merrill Lynch.
Page attended the Okemos Montessori School from ages 6 to 10. By the time he was in middle school, he had excelled in mathematics and science. He transferred to the private East Lansing High School.
In 1991, Page began studying computer engineering at the University of Michigan. He continued his studies at Stanford University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1996 and his master’s degree in 1998.
Career
In 1996, Page and Sergey Brin founded Google, a search engine that would become one of the most popular websites in the world.
Page served as Google’s CEO from 2001 to 2011, during which time the company’s revenues grew from $86 million to $38 billion. He then became the CEO of Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company.
Under Page’s leadership, Google has made several major acquisitions, including YouTube, DoubleClick, and Motorola Mobility.
Philanthropy
Page is a committed philanthropist. He and Brin founded the Google Foundation, which supports education, environmentalism, and global health initiatives.
Page has also donated to the Wikimedia Foundation, the American Red Cross, and the Khan Academy.
Personal life
Page is married to Lucy Southworth, a research scientist. The couple has two children.
Awards and honors
Page has been honored with several awards and accolades, including the Marconi Prize, the Heinz Award, and the TED Prize.
Net worth
As of March 2020, Page’s net worth is estimated to be $50.8 billion.
Top Larry Page Quotes
“You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible.”— Larry Page
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”— Larry Page
“I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.”— Larry Page
“You need to get one thing done well, or else you don’t have permission to do anything else.”— Larry Page
“Every story I read about Google is about us vs some other company, or something else, and I really don’t find that interesting. We should be building great things that don’t exist. Being negative is not how we make progress.”— Larry Page
“You’re probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.”— Larry Page
“You know what it’s like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don’t have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.”— Larry Page
“If we are not trusted, we have no business.”— Larry Page
“How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?”— Larry Page
“It’s very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.”— Larry Page
“Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn’t know where you are. It doesn’t know what you’re doing. It doesn’t know what you know.”— Larry Page
“Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.”— Larry Page
“Google will fulfill its mission only when its search engine is AI-complete. You guys know what that means? That’s artificial intelligence.”— Larry Page
“Serving our end users is at the heart of what we do and remains our number one priority.”— Larry Page
“Our mission is to organize the world’s information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it’s going to work.”— Larry Page
“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.”— Larry Page
“If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don’t have a really narrowly focused education.”— Larry Page
“Don’t be evil- apparently people like it better than “Be good”.”— Larry Page
“The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we’re a long, long ways from that.”— Larry Page
“There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.”— Larry Page
“Technology should do the hard work, so you can get on and live your life. We’re only at one percent of what’s possible, and we’re moving slow relative to the opportunity we have.”— Larry Page
“You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.”— Larry Page
“If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.”— Larry Page
“Most of us carry at least one device, all the time, every day. In fact many of us would feel naked without our smartphone. It’s hardly surprising mobile search queries – and mobile commerce – are growing dramatically across the world.”— Larry Page
“Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.”— Larry Page
“The Star Trek computer doesn’t seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.”— Larry Page
“Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don’t believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you’re likely to have issues.”— Larry Page
“The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.”— Larry Page
“My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they’re having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we’re doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.”— Larry Page
“Find the leverage in the world so you can be truly lazy.”— Larry Page
“If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that’s not going to promote healthiness.”— Larry Page
“Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.”— Larry Page
“You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.”— Larry Page
“We have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil.”— Larry Page
“You’re going to have some very amazing capabilities in the economy. When we have computers that can do more and more jobs, it’s going to change how we think about work. There’s no way around that. You can’t wish it away.”— Larry Page
“I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.”— Larry Page
“You can be serious without a suit.”— Larry Page
“People are starving in the world, not because we don’t have enough food, but because we’re not organized. And computers are part of that.”— Larry Page
“Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.”— Larry Page
“We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.”— Larry Page
“For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can’t have privacy without security.”— Larry Page
“Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.”— Larry Page
“Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.”— Larry Page
“Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, ‘having a healthy disregard for the impossible.’ That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.”— Larry Page
“You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what’s really happening is more important than trying to control people.”— Larry Page
“Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.”— Larry Page
“Almost everyone who has had an idea that’s somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they’re insane.”— Larry Page
“You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.”— Larry Page
“We should be building great things that don’t exist.”— Larry Page
“Always deliver more than expected.”— Larry Page