Larry Page

Larry Page

Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page, (born 26 March 1973 in Lansing, Michigan, US) is an US computer scientist best known as co-founder of Google Inc. In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, Inc. Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google.

He is ranked 26th on the 2009 Forbes list of the world's billionaires and is the 6th richest person in America. In 2007 he and co-founder Sergey Brin were both ranked #1 of the "50 Most Important People on the Web" by PC World Magazine.

Sources for this text: Larry Page. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved, September 28, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page

 

   
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