Larry Page

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Larry Page (2009)

Lawrence "Larry" Edward Page (born March 26, 1973 in East Lansing , Michigan ) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur and was CEO of Alphabet Inc. from July 23, 2015 to December 3, 2019 .

Page graduated from the University of Michigan the Bachelor in Engineering Sciences and the Stanford University the Master in computer science . Together with Sergey Brin he developed the search engine Google . The prototype was launched on September 7, 1998. Since then, he has been CMO and CEO of the Californian company Google Inc until he co-founded the new Google parent company Alphabet Inc. in 2015 . He finally resigned from this office on December 3, 2019.

Google

The idea for Google was originally part of an academic research paper by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University , for which a patent was applied for. One of the main reasons for Google's rapid success was the PageRank algorithm . Since Page quickly understood the enormous potential this had, he decided to put his dissertation on hold (until today). At first, Page tried in vain to inspire the then largest Internet companies for this new technology. In August 1998, however, Andy (von) Bechtolsheim provided the search engine with a check for $ 100,000 after a ten-minute presentation. Since Bechtolsheim assumed that Google was the company, he used Google Inc. as the recipient . Since such a company did not exist until then, Page and Brin registered the company under this name so that the check could be cashed at all, whereupon Page became the first boss of the newly founded company (until 2001).

Page did not get the necessary capital for Google Inc. - in contrast to many other start-up entrepreneurs of the time - from a large venture capital financier, but borrowed it from various donors in smaller amounts. Not dependent on a venture finance company , he retained control of his company from the start. In this way, the two founders of Google Inc. were able to hold the majority in the group even when they went public and thus secure the necessary influence on the development of their own company. When it went public on August 19, 2004, Page was a multi-billionaire with 38 million shares .

In 2001, Page and Brin brought the former Novell manager Eric Schmidt on board. Page relinquished company management to lead product development. Schmidt became Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer , "in order to be able to continue building the company infrastructure and the rapid growth of Google as well as to ensure consistently high quality with the shortest possible product development cycles". Between 2001 and 2011, Schmidt built up Google with Page and Brin to become one of the leading IT companies, with the number of employees growing from 200 to 24,400.

On April 4, 2011, Page replaced Eric Schmidt as CEO, who moved to the Google Board of Directors .

Life

Carl Victor Page , Larry Page's father, was a computer science professor, his mother Gloria Page a database developer, his older brother Carl Page Jr. is also an IT entrepreneur. a. once helped build the company eGroups, which he sold to Yahoo for $ 400 million in 2000 .

Nikola Tesla's biography , which he read at the age of 12, was formative for him and from which he realized that money has to be earned for technical developments.

After a relationship with Marissa Mayer for several years , Larry Page married the Stanford doctoral student Lucy Southworth (* 1979) on December 8, 2007, with whom he has two sons (* 2009 and * 2011).

On May 14, 2013, Larry Page announced that he had bilateral vocal cord paralysis . He was diagnosed with Hashimoto's autoimmune disease in 2003.

Larry Page wants to start a flight service with air taxis with the start-up “Kitty Hawk” in New Zealand .

capital

Larry Page is a multi-billionaire and one of the richest people in the world. With an estimated net worth of $ 53.5 billion, he ranks 10th on Forbes Magazine 's list of the world's richest people in 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Larry Page  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin : The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. 1998, accessed on August 28, 2015 (English, mention of the place of birth in the “Vitae” section).
  2. ↑ Page at Google management team. Google, accessed August 28, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Proschofsky: Alphabet: Google with a new parent company and new boss. derStandard.at , August 10, 2015, accessed on August 11, 2015 . 4. Larry Page resigns as CEO of Google parent Aplphabet https://focus.de/11420366

  4. ↑ Patent US6285999 : Method for node ranking in a linked database. Filed January 10, 1997 , inventor: Lawrence Page. ‌
  5. ↑ Steffen Könau: Googling like a god. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Online. September 12, 2008, accessed January 2, 2013 .
  6. ^ Official company history of Google. Google, accessed August 28, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Detlef Borchers: Google, a $ 100,000 misunderstanding. In: Heise Online . September 7, 2008, accessed October 18, 2011 .
  8. ^ A b c d Frank Patalong: New CEO Larry Page: Google's friendlier face. In: Der Spiegel . January 21, 2011, accessed October 18, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Change of staff at Google: Page becomes CEO. In: FAZ . January 21, 2011, accessed October 18, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Heads: Larry Page. (No longer available online.) In: Wirtschaftswoche . Archived from the original on April 15, 2012 ; Retrieved April 17, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wiwo.de
  11. ↑ Uwe Jean Heuser: Larry Page: One for all. In: The time . May 26, 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Varinia Bernau: Back to the office with the whip. Yahoo boss abolishes home office. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 25, 2013, accessed February 24, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Larry Page: Post on Pages vocal cord disease. In: Google+ . May 14, 2013, accessed May 15, 2013 .
  14. ↑ http://www.golem.de/news/google-chef-larry-page-leidet-an-einer-stimmbandlaehmung-1305-99257.html
  15. ↑ Google co-founder presents electric air taxi In: internetworld.de, March 13, 2018, accessed on March 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Page, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Page, Lawrence E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist and co-founder of the search engine Google
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH East Lansing , Michigan