Sergey Brin is an American entrepreneur specializing in computing, information technology and economics. Together with Larry Page, he created the Google search engine.
Sergey Brin is a hereditary scientist. His grandfather was a mathematician, and his grandmother was engaged in philology.
Programming the future
The biography of the future programmer and businessman began in 1973 in the capital of Russia. He was born on August 21 in a family of graduates of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. The parents immigrated to the United States with their five-year-old son. Mikhail Brin became there an honorary professor at the University of Maryland, and Evgenia Krasnokutskaya began cooperation with corporations KIAS and NASA.
The child turned out to be a talented mathematician, like his older relatives. From primary school, he studied at a school for gifted children. However, even at this level, Breen Jr. was surprising with his abilities. The boy independently created his first programs on a computer donated to him and printed out his homework assignments, amazing the teachers.
After leaving school, the graduate chose education at the University of Maryland. He became a bachelor in the specialty "Mathematics and Computing Systems". Brin completed his master's degree at Stanford University, California. The young man was fascinated by Internet technologies. He took up the development of the latest search engines.
During my studies, I met the graduate student Larry Page. This meeting became fateful for both. At first, both spoke from opposite positions in all discussions. However, over time, they became friends, together they wrote the most relevant scientific work, where they proposed new postulates for the principles of data processing. This work became the tenth most popular Stanford work.
In 1994, an innovative program was created that automatically searches for new pictures on the Playboy website and downloads pictures into the memory of Brin's computer. Based on the developments, talented mathematicians have designed the student search engine "Back Rub".
According to scientists, the results of processing a search query were ranked by demand. Later this innovation became the norm for all systems. In 1998, after an unsuccessful attempt to implement the idea, the graduate students decided to start their own business. Graduate studies were abandoned.
After revision, the university project was transformed into a large-scale business. It was decided to call it "Googol", which means "one followed by one hundred zeros." The world famous version was the result of a common mistake. Andy Bechtolsheim, head of Sun Microsystems, agreed to become the investor.
He was the only one who believed in the genius of the guys and provided them with the desired amount. However, the name was "Google Inc." Soon enough, the new search engine caught everyone's attention. An even greater success was the successful check at the beginning of the 2000s on the "crash of dotcoms", the massive ruin of Internet companies.
In 2007, the book “Google. Breakthrough in the spirit of the times”. It provided success stories and a list of the accomplishments of each of the search engine developers. Sergey Brin is sure that free access to any data is necessary. He opposes the fight against piracy and believes that the companies of Jobs and Zuckerberg are contrary to the foundations of free and freedom of the Web.
Family and business
The programmer devoted all his time to his work. Personal life remained in the background. Having already become a famous and wealthy person, Bryn decided to start a family. His wife was Anna Wojitski, the founder of the 23andMe company. The official ceremony took place in 2007, and a year later, a child, Benji's son, was born.
A new replenishment took place in 2011, a girl appeared. A year after the birth of their daughter, the family broke up. The divorce was formalized in 2015.
Sergey is involved in charity work, he supports the famous Wikipedia project. Together with Page, Brin is busy with the problems of combating aging, financing projects in this direction. In his plans, research on changing the gene responsible for the development of Parkinson's disease.
The mathematician intends to correct the genetic error by replacing information as in a computer code. After the development of the interactive glasses "Google Glass" is completed, Brin does not take them off. This mini-computer has adorned him in all pictures since 2013. Luxury in everyday life is alien to Brin. However, the programmer prefers comfortable housing.
Present time
Sergey is interested in technological and innovative projects. He leads a healthy lifestyle, goes in for sports. The entrepreneur is fond of piloting aircraft. The hobby started with the purchase of a Boeing 767-200 or Google Jet. Flights on it are entrusted to professionals, and the co-owner himself occasionally uses a training aircraft to practice his skills.
The development of Page and Brin's company continues. In the office located in Silicon Valley, such a democratic attitude to employees reigns, even ordinary observers are amazed at everything. Employees received a fifth of their working day for personal files. Allowed the presence of pets, Saturday sports. Only top-class chefs work in the dining room.
Since both co-founders did not manage to finish their postgraduate studies, they chose Erik Schmidt, Doctor of Technical Sciences, as general director. They themselves elected presidential posts.
By 2016, Sergei was ranked 13th in the ranking of the richest people in the world according to Forbes magazine. In 2018, his fortune approached fifty billion.
