Larry Page

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Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin in 1998. While pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University, Page, the son of a computer science professor, developed the PageRank algorithm with Brin, which evaluates the importance of web pages based on link structures and became the core of Google's search engine technology. Page served as Google's CEO from 2011 to 2015 and as CEO of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company, until 2019, after which he transitioned to a board role, retaining significant influence through Class B super-voting shares that provide him and Brin approximately 51% of Alphabet's voting control, while focusing on long-term innovative projects. Under his leadership, Google expanded into diverse sectors including mobile operating systems, cloud computing, and autonomous vehicles, amassing a market capitalization exceeding trillions of dollars and establishing Page as one of the wealthiest individuals globally with a net worth of $248.7 billion as of March 3, 2026, ranking second on Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires list after a recent decline from around $257 billion earlier in the month, a status he has maintained for many years.

In brief

Larry Page met Sergey Brin at Stanford and argued about how to rank a messy web. The answer — links as votes — became Google, then a verb, then a company large enough to need a holding company.

He stepped back from daily management in 2019 and stayed on the board, a quiet centibillionaire whose best idea still sits under almost every query.