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Larry Page
Lawrence Edward Page is an American businessman and computer scientist who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin. Page is a centibillionaire and among the richest people in the world. As of 2026, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes estimated his net worth at US$334.1 billion, positioning him as the second-wealthiest individual in the world.
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Born 26 March 1973 · Q4934
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s core businesses would be able to progress in a typical manner, while he could focus on the next generation of ambitious projects, including Google X initiatives; access and energy, including Google Fiber; smart-home automation through Nest Labs; and biotechnology innovations under Calico. Page maintained that he would continue as the unofficial
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2026· 13 entries
The Economic Times: Larry Page's Powerful Tuesday Motivation Quote: 'If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the...' - Google co-founder's timeless lesson on why bold ...
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The Times of India: Google cofounder Larry Page’s wife, a Stanford-trained scientist, has built an ocean-tech organisation; c
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iProfesional: Larry Page sufre una enfermedad "muy rara" de las cuerdas vocales
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The Times of India: Larry Page remembered 'frank advice' that Steve Jobs gave him when he last visited him, weeks before his
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The Times of India: In 2008, Larry Page demolished two neighbouring Palo Alto homes, expanding his compound to nearly 2 acre
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MARCA: Larry Page, founder of Google: “When you aim for the stars, you may not reach them, but you’ll still make it to the moon”
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“cleaner and more accountable.”
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“s core businesses would be able to progress in a typical manner, while he could focus on the next generation of ambitious projects, including Google X initiatives; access and energy, including Google Fiber; smart-home automation through Nest Labs; and biotechnology innovations under Calico. Page maintained that he would continue as the unofficial”
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“I think my job as CEO—I feel like it”
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Public attention spiked: 12,461 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.2× the usual 2,977, with 1 article edits.
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Android: California’s New Billionaire’s Tax Just Cost the State Larry Page’s Business
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Insider: Larry Page is officially moving business out of California ahead of a proposed billionaire's tax
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2025· 4 entries
The Business Journals: Secretive Larry Page-backed startup chooses a former Fry's building for headquarters as AI reshapes manufacturing
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Newsweek: Larry Page, Jeff Bezos Net Worth as Elon Musk Makes History
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Insider: Inside Larry Page's secret bet to 3D-print the future of air travel
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Yahoo Finance: Google co-founder Larry Page reportedly has a new AI startup
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2024· 1 entry
Benzinga.com: Elon Musk's 'Speciesist' Dispute With Larry Page Signals Larger Issues In AI Leadership, Say Gladstone Experts
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2023· 2 entries
That uses artificial intelligence to optimize product manufacturing processes
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The US Virgin Islands tried several times to serve Page a subpoena in the lawsuit over JPMorgan Chase's links to Jeffrey Epstein
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2021· 5 entries
Published “PRISMA 2020 explanation and elaboration: updated guidance and exemplars for reporting systematic reviews” in BMJ — cited 9,139 times.
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“My wife and I just donated $15 million [...] Our hearts go out to everyone affected.”
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Published “PRISMA 2020 explanation and elaboration: updated guidance and exemplars for reporting systematic reviews” in BMJ — cited 9,510 times.
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Published “The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews” in BMJ — cited 91,325 times.
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Published “The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews” in BMJ — cited 86,158 times.
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2019· 3 entries
Larry Page announced that he would step down from the position of Alphabet CEO and be replaced by Google CEO Sundar Pichai
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Published “RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials” in BMJ — cited 25,850 times.
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Published “RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials” in BMJ — cited 27,010 times.
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (2018).
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2016· 2 entries
Reported net worth: $30.0B (as of 2016).
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Reported net worth: $30B (as of 2016).
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2015· 5 entries
Page announced on Google's official blog that Google had restructured into a number of subsidiaries of a new holding company known as Alphabet Inc with Page becoming CEO of Alphabet Inc and Sundar Pichai assuming the pos
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Awarded Seoul Test of Time Award (2015).
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (2015–2019).
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Page's "Powerful People" profile on the Forbes site states that Google is "the most influential company of the digital era"
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“s official blog that Google had restructured into a number of subsidiaries of a new holding company known as Alphabet Inc with Page becoming CEO of Alphabet Inc and Sundar Pichai assuming the position of CEO of Google Inc. In his announcement, Page described the planned holding company as follows:”
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2014· 2 entries
Eustatia Island, Cayo Norte in 2018, and Tavarua in 2020
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Page sold Motorola Mobility for $2
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2013· 9 entries
“I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.”
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“Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it”
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“It's hard to keep things moving. And that's always a big trick. I think for me, the key is setting really big goals. And, you know, with YouTube, I think we've had tremendous leadership, both with the founders and now with Salar, who's been running it.”
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“If you look at things like Google Now also. Maybe you want to just have [a question] answered for you before you ask it.”
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“I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.”
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That "Google passionately cares about design
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Later on, Page announced on his Google+ profile in May 2013 that his right vocal cord is paralyzed from a cold that he contracted the previous summer, while his left cord was paralyzed in 1999, and that the doctors were unable to identify the exact cause.
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“The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.”
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“Have a healthy disregard for the impossible.”
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2012· 3 entries
“Larry Page's Google Zeitgeist 2012 talk”
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Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,267 times.
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Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,287 times.
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2011· 10 entries
That "companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android
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While Schmidt stepped down to become executive chairman
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"Project Kennedy", based on Page's use of the term "moonshots" to describe ambitious projects in a January 2013 Wired interview
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Jokingly tweeting on Twitter: "Adult-supervision no longer needed
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Was ranked 24th on the Forbes list of billionaires, and as the 11th richest person in the U
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In 2011, Page bought the $45-million 193-foot (59 m) superyacht Senses.
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“Propos publié dans le livre In the Plex en 2011 par Steve Levy & Marissa Mayer”
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (2011–2015).
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Page bought the $45-million 193-foot (59 m) superyacht Senses
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“s official blog on August 15, 2011, that”
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2009· 4 entries
“Larry Page’s University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009.”
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Page began purchasing properties and tearing down homes adjacent to his home in Palo Alto to make room for a large ecohouse
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Page and Southworth have two children, born in 2009 and 2011 respectively.
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Page received an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan during a graduation commencement ceremony
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2008· 2 entries
Page received the Communication Award from Prince Felipe at the Prince of Asturias Awards on behalf of Google
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That it was the best advice he had ever received
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2007· 2 entries
Page married Lucinda Southworth on Necker Island, the Caribbean island owned by Richard Branson
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“Plenary speech, AAAS Annual conference, San Francisco (February 2007).”
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2005· 4 entries
Awarded Financial Times Person of the Year (2005).
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Page bought a 9,000 square feet (840 m2) Spanish Colonial Revival architecture house in Palo Alto, California, designed by American artistic polymath Pedro Joseph de Lemos, a former curator of the Stanford Art Museum and
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Brin and Page were elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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To fulfill his ambition to place handheld computers in the possession of consumers so that they could access Google anywhere
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2004· 4 entries
Awarded Marconi Prize (2004).
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Page and Brin received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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Received the Marconi Foundation's prize and were elected Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University
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X PRIZE chose Page as a trustee of their board and he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
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2003· 3 entries
Published “First‐Year <i>Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe</i> ( <i>WMAP</i> ) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters” in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series — cited 9,303 times.
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Both Page and Brin received an MBA from IE Business School, in an honorary capacity, "for embodying the entrepreneurial spirit and lending momentum to the creation of new businesses
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Published “First‐Year <i>Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe</i> ( <i>WMAP</i> ) Observations: Determination of Cosmological Parameters” in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series — cited 9,255 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Page was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow and along with Brin, was named by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Technology Review publication as one of the top 100 innovators in the w
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2000· 2 entries
Career landmark: chief executive officer (2000–2001).
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Google earned a Webby Award, a People's Voice Award for technical achievement, and in 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best S
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1999· 2 entries
Page experimented with smaller servers so Google could fit more into each square meter of the third-party warehouses the company rented for their servers
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And that the doctors were unable to identify the exact cause
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1998· 3 entries
“Pretty soon, we had 10,000 searches a day. And we figured, maybe this is real.”
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Career landmark: board of directors member (1998).
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Brin and Page incorporated Google, Inc
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1997· 1 entry
“Some Rough Statistics (from August 29, 1996) Total indexable HTML URLs: 75.2306 Million Total content downloaded: 207.022 gigabytes ... BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux. The primary database is kept on a Sun Ultra series II with 28GB of a disk. Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg have provided a great deal of very talented implementation help. Sergey Brin has also been very involved and deserves many thanks.”
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1995· 1 entry
And a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University in 1998
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1993· 1 entry
Studied at East Lansing High School (1987–1993).
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1979· 1 entry
His father brought home an Exidy Sorcerer computer, which Larry soon mastered and began using for schoolwork
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1973· 1 entry
Born 1973-03-26.
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