Sergei Brin

Sergey Brin
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Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin at the 2004 Web 2.0 Conference
Born
August 21, 1973 (1973-08-21) (age 34)Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation
Co-founder and President of Technology of Google
Salary
USD 43,726 (2005)[2][1]
Net worth
USD 18.5 billion[1]
Spouse
Anne Wojcicki[3]
Website
stanford.edu/~sergey/
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-born American entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Larry Page.
Brin currently holds the position of President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $18.5 billion as of March 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world and the 5th richest person in the United States, together with Larry Page.[4] He is also the fourth-youngest billionaire in the world.
Contents[hide]
1 Early life and education
2 Interest in search engines
3 Personal life
4 Miscellaneous
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
7.1 Interviews
7.2 Articles
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[edit] Early life and education
Brin was born in Moscow, in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family, the son of Michael Brin, a mathematician, and his mother, an economist. In 1979, when Brin was six, his family immigrated to the United States. Brin attended grade school at Paint Branch Montessori School in Adelphi, Maryland, but he received further education at home; his father, a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Maryland, nurtured his interest in mathematics and his family helped him retain his Russian-language skills. In September 1990, after having attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Brin enrolled in the University of Maryland, College Park to study computer science and mathematics, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in May 1993 with high honors.
After graduating from Maryland, Brin received a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation, which allowed him to study for his master's degree in computer science at Stanford University. Brin received his master's degree in August 1995 ahead of schedule in the process of his Ph.D. studies. Although he is still enrolled in the Stanford doctoral program, Brin has suspended his Ph.D. studies indefinitely while he is working at Google.
Brin has also received an honorary MBA from the Instituto de Empresa Business School.

[edit] Interest in search engines
Brin expressed interest in the Internet very early on in his studies at Stanford. He authored and co-authored various papers on data-mining and pattern extraction. He also wrote software to ease the process of putting scientific papers often written in TeX, a text-processing language, into HTML form, as well as a website for film ratings.
The defining moment for Brin, however, was when he met future co-president of Google, Larry Page.[5] According to Google lore, Page and Brin "were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995."[6] They soon found a common interest: retrieving relevant information from large data sets. Together, the pair authored what is widely considered their seminal contribution, a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine."[7] The paper has since gone on to become the tenth-most accessed scientific paper at Stanford University.

[edit] Personal life
In May 2007, Brin married Anne Wojcicki in The Bahamas. Wojcicki is a biotech analyst and a graduate of Yale University, graduating in 1996 with a degree in biology.[3][8] She founded 23andMe.[9]

[edit] Miscellaneous
Brin has appeared on television shows and documentaries, including Charlie Rose, CNBC, and CNN. In 2004, he and Larry Page were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. In January 2005 Sergey Brin was nominated to be one of the World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leaders."
Brin and Larry Page purchased a Boeing 767 airliner for their business and personal needs. The plane's interior was supposed to be redesigned by aviation designer Leslie Jennings, but a legal battle between the designer and the holding company that owns the plane stalled the renovation. The plane would hold about 50 passengers when refurbished, and would include a California King-sized bed.[10] Brin is also known as an executive producer of the film Broken Arrows.
In 2007, Brin was cited by PC World as #1 on a list of the "50 most important people on the Web," along with Larry Page and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.[11]
He is also an investor in Tesla Motors, which is developing the Tesla Roadster, a 250-mile range battery electric vehicle. He has also placed an order for the Roadster. It is reported by Conde Nast Portfolio that Brin drives a Toyota Prius.[12]

[edit] See also
List of billionaires
List of single-digit salary earners

[edit] References
^ a b Google Executives Compensation
^ 2005 compensations from Google: $1 in salary, $1723 in bonus, $41,999 other annual compensation, $3 all other compensation. Source: SEC. Google form 14A. Filed March 31, 2006.
^ a b Argetsinger, Amy; Roberts, Roxanne (May 13, 2007). The Reliable Source. Washington Post. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
^ Miller, Matthew; Serafin, Tatiana. The World's Billionaires: #26 Sergey Brin." Forbes. September 21, 2006. Retrieved on March 5, 2007.
^ "Corporate Information: Google Management." Google. Retrieved on March 5, 2007.
^ "Corporate Information: Google Milestones." Google. Retrieved on March 5, 2007.
^ "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine."
^ Anne Wojcicki Marries the Richest Bachelor. Cosmetic Makovers. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
^ Hafner, Katie (May 29, 2007). Silicon Valley Wide-Eyed Over a Bride. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
^ Delaney, Kevin (July 7, 2006). Lawsuits Fly Over Google Founders' Big Private Plane. The Wall Street Journal Online. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
^ Null, Christopher (March 5, 2007). The 50 Most Important People on the Web. PC World. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.
^ Sergey Brin Executive Profile. Conde Nast Portfolio Online.

[edit] External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
Sergey Brin
List of scientific publications by Sergey Brin
Video of Brin giving a lecture at UC Berkeley - Mentions Wikipedia and discusses development of search engines, Google and its evolution, Q&A (Fall 2005)
→ On the Origins of Google

[edit] Interviews
Linux Journal interview - 31 August 2000
Net Café Television Interview - 6 October 2000. Interview starts around 18 minutes and 15 seconds in.
Fresh Air radio interview - 14 October 2003
Search Engine Watch interview - 16 October 2003
UK Channel 4 television interview with Sergey Brin - 31 March 2004
Time Magazine Podcast about Google and its founders
"The Searchmeisters" -- profile on Brin and Page from the B'nai B'rith Magazine (Spring 2006)
Video → Google Founders - Charlie Rose interview from 2001 (14 min)

[edit] Articles
Forbes.com: Fortunes That Roared In 2004
Momentmag.com: The Story of Sergey Brin