Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Founders of Google) - Entrepreneur Profile
Names: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Dates of birth: 26/3/1973 (Page); 21/8/1973 (Brin)
Mini CV: - Met in 1995 as PhD computer science students at Stanford University
- Created Google as a research project early the next year
- Still co-running the company along with - since 2001 - Eric Schmidt
Larry Page and Sergey Brin provide the classic example of a pair of entrepreneurs who latched onto an existing concept and took it further than anybody else could imagine - creating what is now ranked as the world’s third most valuable technology company. Seeing a gap in the nascent search engine market of the mid 1990s (essentially that search engines might better analyse the relationships between website than rank according to search term occurrences), they created Google after using its concept as a base for their research theses, seeing its popularity and profitability mushroom soon after. …continue reading the story
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