Sergey Brin

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Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur most famous as the co-founder of Google Inc

Aug 21, 1973

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: August 21, 1973
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Computer Scientists, Software Entrepreneurs, it, Stanford University, University Of Maryland, IT & Software Entrepreneurs, Internet Entrepreneurs, Scientists, Computer Scientists, INTP
  • Spouses: Anne Wojcicki
  • Known as: Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin
  • Universities:
    • Stanford University,University Of Maryland
    • Moscow State University
  • Notable Alumnis:
    • Stanford University
    • University Of Maryland

Sergey Brin born at

Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

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Birth Place

Sergey Brin married 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki in 2007. The couple had a son in 2008 and a daughter in 2011.

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Personal Life

Sergey Brin's married life was rocked after he had an affair with Google Glass marketing manager Amanda Rosenberg. He and Anne started living separately in 2013 and finally divorced in 2015.

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Personal Life

Sergey Brin and his ex-wife run The Brin Wojcicki Foundation, which donates money to various social causes.

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Personal Life

Sergey Brin was born in Moscow to Jewish parents Michael Brin and Eugenia Brin. His father was a mathematics professor and his mother a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Childhood & Early Life

His family migrated to the U.S when he was six as it was very difficult for Jews in Moscow to pursue higher education and follow the profession of their choice.

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Childhood & Early Life

Brin attended Paint Branch Montessori School in Maryland. His father encouraged him to study mathematics at home.

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Childhood & Early Life

After high school, he went to the University of Maryland to study mathematics and computer science and received his Bachelor of Science in 1993.

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Childhood & Early Life

He enrolled for his graduate studies in computer science at Stanford University on the basis of a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

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Childhood & Early Life

The idea of Google originated when Sergey Brin was working with Larry Page on a research project for their thesis. Page was interested in exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, a concept that Brin also found attractive.

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Founding of Google Inc

They began working together on the research project, called ‘BackRub.’ Initially, a web crawler was used to explore the web from the starting point of page’s Stanford home page.

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Founding of Google Inc

Brin, along with Page, developed the PageRank algorithm. After analyzing BackRub’s output using this algorithm, they realized that a search engine based on PageRank would produce better results than the existing techniques.

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Founding of Google Inc

They tested their hypothesis on their university’s computers with very good results. Their project ran on Stanford computers for many months. Originally, the project used the university’s website with the domain google.stanford.edu.

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Founding of Google Inc

In 1997, they registered the domain google.com. The company was legally incorporated on September 4, 1998 at a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California.

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Founding of Google Inc

The formation of Google is Sergey Brin’s biggest accomplishment so far. The company that he co-founded from a garage in 1998 has witnessed tremendous growth and success within such a short period. Brin and Page have revolutionized the way the world searches for information online.

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Major Works

Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google.Inc, was formed in 2004 to work in domains that affect the society at large. It develops technologies that help to address global issues like education, energy crisis, hunger management, etc.

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Major Works