Lawrence Edward Page[2][3][4] (born March 26, 1973) is an American business magnate, computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin.[2][5]
Page was the chief executive officer of Google from 1997 until August 2001 (stepping down in favor of Eric Schmidt) then from April 2011 until July 2015 when he moved to become CEO of Alphabet Inc. (created to deliver “major advancements” as Google’s parent company),[6] a post he held until December 4, 2019. He remains an Alphabet board member, employee, and controlling shareholder.[7]
Creating Google built a significant amount of wealth. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as of July 2022, Page has a net worth of approximately $108 billion,[8] making him the fifth-wealthiest person in the world.[8]
Page is the co-creator and namesake of PageRank, a search ranking algorithm for Google.[16] He received the Marconi Prize in 2004 with co-writer Brin.[17]
Page was first attracted to computers when he was six years old, as he was able to “play with the stuff lying around”—first-generation personal computers—that had been left by his mother and father.[26] He became the “first kid in his elementary school to turn in an assignment from a word processor“.[30] His older brother Carl Victor Page Jr.[31] also taught him to take things apart and before long he was taking “everything in his house apart to see how it worked”. He said that “from a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became interested in technology and business. Probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually.”[30]
