How Larry Page Became Google s Co founder

Larry Page was born March 26, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan to Carl Victor Page and Gloria Lavonne Ammerman. His father taught computer science at Michigan State University while his mother taught computer skills to the Air Force. Larry graduated from the Madeira School in 1992 with honors and attended Stanford University, graduating with a BS in 1997 and an MS in 1998, both in computer engineering. He became interested in search engines after reading about the burgeoning field of web search during a summer internship at DEC’s Western Research Laboratory where he met Sergey Brin who would become his Google co-founder. How Larry Page Became Google s Co founder

Early Years

From his early years in elementary school, Larry showed a propensity for math and science. He won first place in a local science fair with a project on energy conversion. But that wasn’t all: he also sold firecrackers to classmates, helped his dad run marathons, and published a newsletter about bugs—which naturally attracted ads from bug zappers. (We can only imagine what it said.) One thing is certain: by 8th grade, he was already trying to find ways to make money. How Larry Page Became Google s Co founder

U.S. Senate Internship

Google founder and CEO Larry Page had a normal childhood and college career. However, when he got an internship at NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory in 1996, it was there that he met a few people who would become like family to him: Sergey Brin, another scientist who had graduated from Stanford University in 1995; Kavita Rao, his mentor at NASA; and Craig Silverstein, chief technology officer of Yahoo! Inc. Page credits them with much of his success today. The rest is history. How Larry Page Became Google s Co founder

Early Entrepeneurship

In 1997, Larry joined up with Sergei Brin to co-found a little company called Google. The team had only about 20 employees in total, but within a few years they had several hundred workers and were working on one of most ambitious projects ever. Unbeknownst to his parents, friends, and teachers, during those early years at Stanford Sergey Brin and Larry Page (who are now married) conceived their own startup in a dorm room.

Do Cool Things

In 1998, while still at Stanford, Page got into an email argument with Sergey Brin over Brin’s idea for a search engine. The argument went on for days, and in the end they agreed to start working together on their own search engine. Soon after that, he convinced Brin to drop out of Stanford. In 2004, Google bought another company called Keyhole which developed mapping software and turned it into Google Earth.

Going Into Business With Brin

It was while he was still a graduate student at Stanford University that Larry Page became one of three people—along with Sergey Brin and future Apple CEO Steve Jobs—to begin working on a project that would eventually change the world. It came in 1995, when Page responded to an e-mail from Brin, who had been assigned as his research advisor. Over lunch one day that year, Brin described a project he’d been thinking about: Internet search.

Stock Option Agreement

This is a legally binding contract between two parties outlining how an employee can purchase stock from their employer. Stock options are often reserved for high-level executives and other essential employees, but they can also be granted to regular full-time or part-time workers. Employees who receive stock options must typically wait a certain amount of time before exercising them, and may have to meet certain criteria (usually around performance) in order to do so.

The Genesis of a Search Engine

When he and Brin had their first meeting about building a search engine, Page already had an idea of what it should be like. He told Brin that their new engine would display one hundred results per page (instead of just ten), and that users could vote on which ones they liked best (instead of being given results based on an invisible algorithm). We want to make people happy, he said.

IPO Day

In August 2004, Google went public with a stock price of $85/share. At that point, its market capitalization was $23 billion. In 2014, however, it reached an all-time high at over $600 billion.

Becoming CEO And Board Member

After receiving his Ph.D. in computer science, page decided to stay at Stanford University and became an assistant professor in 1998. During his time there, he came up with a new search technology that was eventually licensed by another company called Excite. This relationship made him realize that it might be easier to start a business than license one, so he used $250,000 from Excite to co-found another venture: Google.

The Acquisition Of Android

In 2004, Google acquired Android Inc., an operating system start-up run by Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears and Chris White. The technology was part of a project started by Rubin when he worked at Apple called Android and it was designed to power devices like cell phones. It is still seen as a pioneering move for mobile and one that continues to shape what users expect from their phones even now.

Alphabet Inc. and Beyond

Larry Page is not only one of Google’s co-founders, but also currently serves as CEO of Alphabet Inc., which offers several additional products that are meant to assist with day-to-day tasks and communications. With their recently launched self-driving car program, Alphabet Inc. is aiming to revolutionize personal transportation in America. The company’s original project, known as Google X Lab, is dedicated to finding solutions to a number of seemingly impossible prob