Sergey Brin

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.