Larry Page
Lawrence Edward Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for being one of the co-founders of Google along with Sergey Brin. Page is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.
- Larry Page is the CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, healthcare firm Verily, autonomous vehicle unit Waymo, and other subsidiaries.
- 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 Google‘s new parent company Alphabet.
- He is a founding investor in space exploration company Planetary Resources and is also funding “flying car” startups Kitty Hawk and Opener.