Quick Info
| Profession | Computer scientist and entrepreneur |
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| Nationality | American |
| Date of Birth | 21/08/1973 |
| Age | 52 years |
| Birthplace | Moscow, Russia |
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Bio/Wiki
| Full Name | Sergey Mikhailovich Brin |
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Educational Qualification(s)
| University of Maryland, College Park | BS in Mathematics and Computer Science (1993) |
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| Stanford University | MS in Computer Science |
Personal Life
| Immigrated to US | 1979, age 6, to escape Jewish persecution in Soviet Union |
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| Childhood | Grew up in Adelphi, Maryland; attended Montessori school |
Family
| Father | Michael Brin (mathematics professor at University of Maryland) |
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| Brother | One younger brother |
| Mother | Research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center |
Career
| Co-founded Google | 1998 with Larry Page in Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park |
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| President of Alphabet Inc. | Until 03/12/2019 |
| Current Role | Co-founder, controlling shareholder, and board member at Alphabet |
| President of Google | Before stepping down in 2019 |
| Notable Achievement | Google IPO in August 2004 made Brin and Page billionaires; Google became world's most popular search engine |
Some Lesser Known Facts
| 1. Emigrated from Moscow at age 6 among the last Jews allowed to leave USSR before Gorbachev era | |
| 2. Attended Montessori school as a child | |
| 3. Graduated high school in 1990 and BS in three years with highest honors | |
| 4. Developed early search engine 'BackRub' in dorm room | |
| 5. Working on zero-emissions air travel projects | |
| 6. Graduated Eleanor Roosevelt High School in 1990 and completed BS degree in three years with highest honors | |
| 7. Received National Science Foundation fellowship to attend Stanford University | |
| 8. Co-authored influential papers including 'The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine,' one of the most downloaded scientific documents in Internet history | |
| 9. Named 35th most powerful person and 13th richest person in the world by Forbes in 2018 | |
| 10. Currently working on developing new forms of zero-emissions air travel |