Big Thinkers Series - Larry Page - S2 - EPI - 153

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.