A researcher who managed to build an empire and changed the history of the internet completely.
Currently, the Forbes list of the wealthiest people in the world is led by 50 people; Being part of the ranking, even if it is in the last number, would mean having a great fortune, imagine who is in the top 10. Currently Larry Page is in 8th place with a fortune of 137.9 billion USD.
Lawrence “Larry” Edward Page is an American computer engineer and businessman who studied his doctorate at Stanford University. Page began working on a research project together with Sergey Brin. The project was to create a search engine that would classify web pages more efficiently than the existing search engines at that time, what they did not know is everything that would come after presenting it.
Larry Page.
Larry Page.
Who is Larry Page and how he got his fortune
Larry Page was a student at Standfor when he and his colleague and friend Sergey Brin developed BackRub, a search engine that used an algorithm called PageRank to evaluate the importance of web pages based on the links they received.
In 1998, they founded Google. The name “Google” is a play on words derived from the mathematical term “googol”, which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, indicating the idea of organizing a massive amount of information. In 2004, Google went public and its shares were offered to the public, making friends Page and Brin billionaires.
Under Larry’s leadership, Google had impressive service expansions such as:
- Gmail: one of the most popular email services.
- Google Maps – a revolutionary online mapping service.
- YouTube: Google acquired the video platform in 2006.
- Android: Google acquired the Android mobile operating system, which grew to become one of the most widely used operating systems in the world.
What does the founder of Google currently do?
In 2019, Larry resigned from his leadership role in the ALPHABET company.although he is still part of the board and making important decisions. Little is known about his private life since he is a person who likes to keep a low profile, although it is known that he is married to Lucinda Southworth, who is a researcher in the field of biomedicine and they have two children.
Since he decided to change his way of life, Larry found a very strange hobby, or rather, unattainable for the rest of the people. Since 2018 the billionaire likes to collect islands. His most impressive acquisition was Cayo Norte, an island in Puerto Rico that cost him $32 million.
Before owning Cayo Norte, he already owned 5 more islands in Fiji and the United States Virgin Islands. It is a strange and eccentric hobby since it is estimated that There are only 2,000 habitable islands in the world.in areas that do not have political problems and that can legally be developed.
Source: Ambito
I am an author and journalist who has worked in the entertainment industry for over a decade. I currently work as a news editor at a major news website, and my focus is on covering the latest trends in entertainment. I also write occasional pieces for other outlets, and have authored two books about the entertainment industry.
