Big Thinkers Series - Larry Page - S2 - EPI - 153
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 153
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Larry Page Cofounder And Board Member, Alphabet $111.1B$1.4B (1.32%)Real Time Net Worth as of 8/10/23#7 in the world today
About Larry Page
- Larry Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, in 2019 but remains a board member and a controlling shareholder.
- He cofounded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford Ph.D. student Sergey Brin.
- With Brin, Page invented Google's PageRank algorithm, which powers the search engine.
- Page was CEO until 2001, when Eric Schmidt took over, and then from 2011 until 2015, when he became CEO of Google's new parent firm Alphabet.
- He is a founding investor in space exploration company Planetary Resources and is also funding "flying car" startups Kitty Hawk and Opener.
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