Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder of Google, alongside Larry Page.
Brin was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, on August 21, 1973. He emigrated to the United States with his family in 1979, at the age of six. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and economics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1993. He went on to receive his Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1995.
After graduation, Brin and Page founded Google, which has become one of the largest and most influential companies in the world. Brin is also a trustee of the X Prize Foundation and a director of the Alphabet Inc. holding company that owns Google.
In this article, we’ll take a look at the life and career of Sergey Brin.
Table of Contents:
1. Early Life
2. Career
3. Personal Life
4. Awards and Honors
5. Philanthropy
6. Net Worth
7. Legacy
8. Top Sergey Brin Quotes
Early Life:
Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, Soviet Union, on August 21, 1973. He is the son of Mikhail Brin, a mathematician and computer scientist, and Eugenia Brin, a researcher in human genetics.
Brin and his family emigrated to the United States in 1979, when he was six years old. They settled in Maryland, where Brin’s father worked as a professor at the University of Maryland, and his mother as a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Brin attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland. He then went on to study computer science and economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1993.
After graduation, Brin enrolled at Stanford University to study for a PhD in computer science. He met Larry Page, another Stanford computer science student, and the two became close friends and collaborators.
Career:
After receiving his PhD from Stanford in 1995, Brin and Page founded Google, a search engine that would revolutionize the way people use the Internet.
Google rapidly grew in popularity and became one of the most influential companies in the world. In 2004, Brin and Page took the company public, making them both billionaires.
In 2015, Brin and Page restructured Google into the Alphabet Inc. holding company. Alphabet Inc. now owns Google and several other companies, such as Nest Labs and Verily.
In addition to his work at Google, Brin is also a trustee of the X Prize Foundation and a director of the Alphabet Inc. holding company.
Personal Life:
Brin is married to Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder of the genetics company 23andMe. They have two children together.
Awards and Honors:
Brin has received numerous awards and honors for his work in the technology industry. In 2004, he and Page were named Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year. In 2007, they were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
In 2008, Brin was named one of Forbes Magazine’s 400 richest people in the world. In 2012, he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.
Philanthropy:
Brin is a committed philanthropist. He has donated millions of dollars to charitable causes, including disaster relief, education, and health research.
In 2011, Brin and Page pledged $1 billion to charity through the Google Foundation. The foundation supports a variety of causes, including education, the environment, and health research.
Net Worth:
As of 2020, Sergey Brin’s net worth is estimated to be $52.4 billion.
Legacy:
Sergey Brin is one of the most successful and influential entrepreneurs of our time. He has helped to shape the modern Internet and has made a lasting impact on the world.
Top Sergey Brin Quotes:
We want Google to be the third half of your brain. – Sergey Brin
We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody’s always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise, there’s a never-ending debate. – Sergey Brin
Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal. – Sergey Brin
“It’s clear there’s a lot of room for improvement, there’s no inherent ceiling we’re hitting up on.” – Sergey Brin
The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there. – Sergey Brin
It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party. – Sergey Brin
I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort. – Sergey Brin
The name was supposed to be ‘Googol,’ which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed. – Sergey Brin
Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine. – Sergey Brin
We are currently not planning on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin
Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It’s just a painful business to be in. It’s just not necessarily how I want to spend my time. – Sergey Brin
I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations. – Sergey Brin
Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply. – Sergey Brin
“To me, this is about preserving history and making it available to everyone.” – Sergey Brin
Currently we don’t have plans on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin
Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don’t know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale. – Sergey Brin
Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power. – Sergey Brin
“We do lots of stuff. The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.” – Sergey Brin
I’d like to get to a state where people think that if you’ve Googled something, you’ve researched it, and otherwise haven’t, and that’s it. – Sergey Brin
When I was growing up, I always knew I’d be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence. – Sergey Brin
“I feel there’s an existential angst among young people. I didn’t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.” – Sergey Brin
When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley. – Sergey Brin
People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated. – Sergey Brin
“It’s not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good.” – Sergey Brin
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice – fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks. – Sergey Brin
You can make money without doing evil. – Sergey Brin
Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine. – Sergey Brin
“When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.” – Sergey Brin
We just want to have great people working for us. – Sergey Brin
If you had all the world’s information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you’d be better off. – Sergey Brin
“Too many rules stifle innovation.” – Sergey Brin
It’s a romantic notion that you’re going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great… but the execution and delivery are what’s key. – Sergey Brin
“We are currently not planning on conquering the world.” – Sergey Brin
You always hear the phrase; money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it’s not really true. I got a new car because the old one’s lease expired. – Sergey Brin
“If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it’s probably not transformative enough.” – Sergey Brin
As we go forward, I hope we’re going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work. – Sergey Brin
It was the summer of 1998. At that point, we were just scrounging around to find resources; we had stolen these computers from all over the department, sort of. – Sergey Brin
If Google Books is successful, others will follow. – Sergey Brin
“Obviously, everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately, making a big difference in the world.” – Sergey Brin
We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages. – Sergey Brin
We have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good – always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, ‘Don’t be evil’ seems the easiest way to summarize it. – Sergey Brin
Before Google, I don’t think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thousand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren’t necessarily as useful as 10 good ones. – Sergey Brin
“We wouldn’t survive if people didn’t trust us.” – Sergey Brin
Too many rules will stifle innovation. – Sergey Brin
Ultimately you want to have the entire world’s knowledge connected directly to your mind. – Sergey Brin
Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems. – Sergey Brin
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won’t kill people. – Sergey Brin
Having been trained as a computer scientist in the ’90s, everybody knew that AI didn’t work. People tried it. They tried neural nets, and none of it worked. – Sergey Brin
I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself – as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal. – Sergey Brin
“I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that’s what this organisation does.” – Sergey Brin
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