Lawrence Page
By Willa Zheng and Andrew Fong
Larry Page
He has a net worth of 36.2 billion and currently resides in Palo Alto, California with his wife Lucinda Southworth.
He owns a charity foundation, named after his father, the Carl Victor Page Memorial Foundation, in which he has donated over a billion dollars to charity. He has also given 180 million dollars worth of stock to charity, and Google has made lots of donations as well.
Early Life & Education
He was influenced at an early age from his family, being that his mother taught computer science and his dad experimented with learning about computers. He stated in an interview that in his childhood, he was influenced by his family environment.
He later went on to study at The University of Michigan and later Stanford University to gain his knowledge about engineering and computer science.
GOOGLE & ALPHABET
Founding Google
Page Today
It has also gone worldwide and won many awards like The Ace Metrix Overall Brand of 2014, 2014 Glassdoor's Employee Choice Awards, and is currently Forbes' 3rd Most Valuable Brand.
He also wanted to invest in other companies, so he created the Parent Company, Alphabet in 2015. Alphabet is basically one company with many little companies under it, including Google. He is still the CEO of Alphabet, along with Sergey Brin as President.
Extra!
Fun Facts
- Google was actually first called Back Rub.
- There are now about 1.2 trillion searches on Google per day.
- Google has 78% of all searches on the internet.
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