Larry Page

LARRY PAGE

Place of birth : Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Places Lived : Appleton, Wisconsin

Net worth : $12 billion (2009)

Larry Page, 36, Who is an American computer scientist best known as co-founder of Google Inc. He made In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, Inc.

Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google. Both Page and Brin earn an annual compensation of one dollar. He continues to be committed to renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.org.

He is ranked 26th on the 2009 Forbes list of the world’s billionaires and is the 11th richest person in America, despite his compensation of one dollar annually. In 2007 he and co-founder Sergey Brin were both ranked #1 of the “50 Most Important People on the Web” by PC World Magazine.

Larry Page and his business partner Sergey Brin changed the way most people use the Internet. PageRank provided the basis for Brin and Page’s Ph.D project and continues to be the major factor in Google’s search algorithm today. Google PageRank™ ranks the quality of each web page using a complex calculation of link structure. Google became a public company on August 19, 2004, trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange as GOOGLE.

Larry Page became president of products in 2001. He and Brin managed the company up until it reached more than 200 employees in 2001, when they handed over the CEO position to Dr. Eric Schmidt. Larry Pages continues to play an important role in running the company with Schmidt and Brin
In 2005 Larry Page has an estimated wealth of $US7.2 billion according to the Forbes business magazine. Forbes ranks Larry Page as the 55th richest man in the world at just 32 years of age.

“Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.”

“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.”

“It’s quite complicated and sounds circular, but we’ve worked out a way of calculate a Web site’s importance,”

“Many companies have suffered from unreasonable speculation, small initial share float, and boom-bust cycles that hurt them and their investors in the long run. We believe that an auction-based IPO will minimize these problems.”

“It’s quite complicated and sounds circular, but we’ve worked out a way of calculate a Web site’s importance.”

“We don’t have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many. You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”