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Sergey Mikhailovich Brin(English) Sergey Brin; August 21, 1973, Moscow, USSR) - American businessman and scientist in the field of computer technology, information technologies and economics, billionaire (20th place ▼ in the world) - developer and co-founder (together with Larry Page) of the Google search engine. Lives in Los Altos, California.

According to Forbes magazine, in 2015 he took the 20th place among the richest people on the planet.

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born in Moscow into a Jewish family of mathematicians who moved permanently to the United States in 1979 when he was 5 years old.

Sergey Brin's parents are both graduates of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University (1970 and 1971).

Sergey's father - a former researcher at the Research Economic Institute under the USSR State Planning Committee (NIEI under the USSR State Planning Committee), Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Mikhail Izrailevich Brin (born 1948) - became a teacher at the University of Maryland (now an honorary professor).

Mother - Evgenia Brin (nee Krasnokutskaya, born in 1949), in the past - a researcher at the Institute of Oil and Gas, then a climatology specialist at NASA and director of the HIAS charity organization; series author scientific papers in meteorology.

Sergey's grandfather - Israel Abramovich Brin (1919-2011) - candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, was an assistant professor at the electromechanical faculty of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (1944-1998). Grandmother - Maya Mironovna Brin (1920-2012) - philologist; in her honor, a research program (The Maya Brin Residency Program) and a lecture position (Maya Brin Distinguished Lecturer in Russian) were organized at the Russian department at the University of Maryland with donations from her son. Known from other relatives native brother grandfather - Soviet athlete and coach in Greco-Roman wrestling, Honored Coach of the USSR Alexander Abramovich Kolmanovsky (1922-1997).

In October 2000, Brin stated:

“I am aware of the hardships my parents had to go through (when we lived in the Soviet Union), and I am deeply grateful to them for taking me to the States.” original text(English)

I know the hard times that my parents went through there, and I am very thankful that I was brought to the States.

Ten years earlier, in the summer of 1990, a few weeks before Sergei's 17th birthday, his father led a group of gifted students from a specialized mathematics school, including Sergei, on their two-week exchange trip to the Soviet Union. As Sergei recalls, this trip awakened in him his childhood fears of the authorities, and his first impulse to resist Soviet oppression was the desire to throw pebbles at the police car. On the second day of the trip, when the group was heading to a hospital in the Moscow region, Sergei took his father aside, looked into his eyes and said:

"Thank you for taking us all away from Russia." original text(English)

Thank you for taking us all out of Russia.

Bachelors degree

He received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computing from the University of Maryland ahead of schedule. Received a scholarship from the US National Science Foundation (National Science Foundation).

Main area scientific research Sergey Brin were technologies for collecting data from unstructured sources, large arrays of scientific data and texts.

Stanford University

In 1993 he entered Stanford University in California, where he received a master's degree and began working on his dissertation. Already during his studies, he became interested in Internet technologies and search engines, became the author of several studies on extracting information from large arrays of textual and scientific data, and wrote a program for processing scientific texts.

In 1995, at Stanford University, Sergey Brin met another mathematics graduate student, Larry Page, with whom they founded Google in 1998. Initially, they argued vehemently when discussing any scientific topic, but then became friends and teamed up to create a search engine for their campus. Together they wrote the scientific work "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine", which is considered to contain the prototype of their future super-successful idea.

First search engine

Brin and Page proved the validity of their idea on the university search engine google.stanford.edu, developing its mechanism in accordance with new principles. On September 14, 1997, the google.com domain was registered. Attempts to develop the idea and turn it into a business followed. Over time, the project left the walls of the university and managed to collect investments for further development.

The joint business grew, made a profit, and even showed enviable stability at the time of the dot-com collapse, when hundreds of other companies went bankrupt. In 2004, the names of the founders were named by Forbes magazine in the list of billionaires.

Personal life

In May 2007, Sergey Brin married Anna Wojitsky. Anna graduated from Yale University in 1996 with a degree in biology and founded 23andMe. At the end of December 2008, Sergey and Anna had a son, Benji, and at the end of 2011, a daughter. In September 2013, the marriage broke up.

public role

Sergey Brin is the author of dozens of publications in leading American academic journals, and also periodically speaks at various national and international scientific, business and technology forums. He often speaks to the press, television programs, talking about his views on search technologies and the IT industry as a whole.

Brin's company is making giant philanthropic investments. The founders of the company said that over 20 years, 20 billion dollars will be spent on this goal.

Together with Larry Page, he is engaged in the fight against aging.

sayings

In July 2002, in an interview with a California magazine Red Herring Sergey Brin said:

Russia is Nigeria in the snow. Do you really like the idea that a gang of bandits will control the supply of all the world's energy?

original text(English)

Russia is Nigeria with snow. Do you really want a bunch of criminal cowboys controlling the world's energy supply?

Later, in 2008, talking to Russian journalists in Moscow, when asked about this statement, he replied: “Something like that was printed. I don't remember saying that. I used to go to this restaurant, but I drank a lot of wine then.” Sergey Brin's father, Mikhail Brin, who was present with him then, told reporters that he was surprised by the information about this statement of his son, and also said that many of the facts in that article were confused, immediately after publication, he did not discuss this with son, and when he asked some time later, he received approximately the same answer as the journalists at that moment.

However, Brin still speaks Russian to his parents and considers his years in Russia "important".

In 2012, Sergey Brin during an interview The Guardian took the social network Facebook and company Apple among the main enemies of the free Internet. Today, according to Brin, the principles of openness and universal access to information, which were laid down when the Internet was created, are under the greatest threat. He also said that the governments of a number of countries are increasingly restricting the access of their citizens to the World Wide Web. He admitted that he had previously underestimated the danger and believed that the authorities were unable to restrict citizens' access to the Internet for a long time. Now, according to him, Internet censorship is most pronounced in China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Another threat to the freedom of the web Google called the entertainment industry's attempts to step up the fight against piracy. Google actively opposed anti-piracy bills Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) And PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), which, according to their opponents, would allow the US authorities to censor the Internet.

Financial condition

In November 2011, Sergey Brin donated $500,000 to the Wikipedia project.

Sergey Brin photo

Sergey Brin is a scientist, programmer, mathematician, at the age of six he moved with his parents from the USSR to the USA. In his student years, together with Larry Page, he founded the largest search engine Google. In 2016, according to Forbes magazine, he is on the 13th line among the richest people in the world, his fortune is estimated at $ 39.8 billion.

 

For reference:

• Full name: Brin Sergey Mikhailovich
• Was born: in 1973 on August 21 in Moscow
• Education: University of Maryland (received a bachelor's degree), Stanford University (graduated from a master's degree).
• Start of business activity: 1998
• Type of activity at start: creating a Google search engine
• What is he doing now: President of Alphabet Inc., which became Google Inc.
• State:$39.8 billion in 2016 according to Forbes magazine.

Sergey Brin is a scientist, a genius, "the guy", the richest immigrant in America, who built a multi-billion dollar business. He wears augmented reality glasses and builds an airship. He is open, direct and bold. In his student years, for the sake of an interesting conversation, he could break into the professor's office.

The biography of an entrepreneur is closely related to his business. He founded Google from scratch, which in 2016 was in second place in the list of the most valuable companies in the world by market capitalization. Where did it all begin?

History of success

Everyone in the family of Google founder Sergey Brin was a scientist. My great-grandmother was a microbiologist, my grandmother was a philologist, and my grandfather was a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences. His father taught mathematical disciplines at the Energy Institute, Sergey's mother, Evgenia Brin, worked at the research institute.

The Brins are hereditary Jews. The family lived in Moscow. They faced distinct manifestations of anti-Semitism in the USSR. Mikhail Brin - the father of the future billionaire - was not allowed to go abroad for scientific conferences were not allowed to study in graduate school.

In 1979, father, mother and six-year-old Sergei immigrated to the United States. After moving to the states, Mikhail Brin was invited to work at the University of Maryland, and Evgenia got a job as a specialist at the Center space flights them. Goddard at NASA.

When Mikhail Brin was asked what made him move with his wife and young son to a foreign country, he answered philosophically that "a person's love for his homeland is not always mutual."

Living and learning in the states

During his school years, Sergey mastered programming and already then decided that he wanted to connect his life with mathematics in relation to the field computer technology.

The formation of the personality of the future billionaire was greatly influenced by the approach to training and education of his father. It is as follows: in a situation where 7 out of 10 possible awards are received, the father always asks the question “what about the other three?”. Sergei always asks himself the same question in life. He does not sit still, but always strives for more.

In 1990, Sergei entered the university where his father worked, at the Faculty of Mathematics, specializing in mathematics and computer systems. He received his bachelor's degree in three years instead of four. He received a diploma with honors and the prestigious Nacional Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. This allowed Brin to choose any university and continue at it. higher education.

Sergei chose Stanford University. Having a bachelor's degree, he immediately entered the doctoral program. Here he gained invaluable practical experience in major projects and in conducting research. Developed technologies for collecting data from large arrays of unstructured information. IN free time Sergey was engaged in swimming and gymnastics, actively participated in the life of the university. But most of his time was devoted to programming and mathematics.

In an interview, Brin says that he knows how difficult it was for his parents in the USSR, and is very grateful to them for taking him to the USA. He is also credited with saying that "Russia is Nigeria in the snow." Although Sergei himself claims that he does not remember saying such things.

Iconic acquaintance

At Stanford in the fall of 1995, Sergey Brin met Lawrence Edward (Larry) Page, the future co-founder of Google Corporation. Already at the first meeting, a heated argument ensued between the guys, each tried to prove his point of view. At first, the guys seemed to each other very unpleasant types.

However, in the process of communication, young people discovered a lot of common interests, made friends and, as a result, set about joint scientific work - a doctoral dissertation, which was devoted to searching for data on the Internet through the analysis of hyperlinks. On campus, a tandem of talented programmers was called “LarrySergey”.

Google success story

Collaboration grew into the creation of a search engine. By early 1997, a primitive search engine called BackRub had been developed. She processed links to web pages. Its logo was a black and white image of the palm of Larry's left hand, made using a scanner. Later, friends renamed it Google.

This is interesting: The name Google comes from the mathematical term googol, which means a number consisting of one and hundreds of zeros. Comrades misspelled the word. When they found out about it, the name Google.com was already registered. The name symbolized the grandiose intentions of Brin and Page.

The algorithm of work was technically different than that of other existing search engines: the system focused not on verbal queries, but on the number of links. The more links to a site, the more popular it is. In addition, the significance of the sites on which these links are located was taken into account. This link ranking algorithm was given the name PageRank.

Brin did not have the funds to pay for the services of a professional designer, so he designed the search engine simply and uncomplicated: multi-colored letters on a white background. As it turned out, he did not lose.

Initially, the search engine was located on the server of Stanford University and only students used it. By 1998, about 10,000 people were already using the system, which created a large load on the server, which was equal to half of all university traffic. In addition, the search robot could access restricted pages. Newly minted entrepreneurs were asked to release the server.

Comrades offered their developments to existing Internet companies, venture investors, but were refused. And the head of one of the most recognizable brands on the Internet in the 90s - Excite - told Sergey and Larry that "search engines have no prospects and it is impossible to make money on them." Now Google is thriving, and Excite has lost its popularity and gone bankrupt.

The first investor to believe in Google was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, a software and hardware company. His name is Andy Bechtolsheim. The investor liked that while other companies spent money on advertising, Page and Brin planned to make the system popular through positive user reviews and recommendations, creating a really useful service. Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to a company that didn't exist.

By 1998, the enterprising friends had managed to raise a total of $1 million. In the same year, they registered a company headquartered in a garage in Menlow Park, California.

The comrades rented a garage from the sister of Brin's future wife, Anna Wojitsky. Sergei and Anna were married from 2007 to 2013, after which they divorced. They have two children: a son and a daughter.

The search engine was included in the top 100 Internet sites for high search accuracy, according to the world famous British video game magazine PlayStation Magazine.

In 2004, Google Inc placed its shares on the stock exchange at a price of $85, during the year the price increased by 273% and amounted to $317.8.

The number of requests was already in the billions a day. Google has become the main search engine in the world. Even then, the value of the company was estimated at $23 billion. In 2015, its value was estimated at $460 billion. Sergey Brin is actively involved in charity work and plans to spend $20 billion for this purpose.

Quote from Sergey Brin: “Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be thought of as a major innovator, a person of high morals, trustworthy, and ultimately bringing great change to this world.”

Watch the video interview with Sergey Brin

Company and personal finance

In 2015, the transformation of Google Inc into the Alphabet Inc Management Company was officially announced, which combines many assets. Among them:

• Google search engine;
• the Calico life extension program;
• smart home developer Nest Labs;
• Verily Health Research Center;
• system integrator of broadband Internet access Fiber;
• developer of self-organizing software X;
• investment company Google Capital and venture - Google Venture.

In 2017, the European Commission fined Alphabet Inc $2.42 billion for abusing its dominant position in the search engine market. This amount is the highest of all fines in antitrust cases.

The founder of Google does not disdain trips on the subway, prefers a simple style of dress, despite his status and financial condition, see table 1.

*as of June 2017 according to Forbes

In the spring of 2017, the press reported that Sergey Brin was working on the construction of a huge airship. What is it: a new business project or a whim of a billionaire, has not yet been reported.

Sergey Brin is the founder of Google, a billionaire and philanthropist. Jeans, sneakers, a jacket and a life without formalities is the concept of success for one of the richest people in the world. He was able to form a corporation in a garage and entered the Forbs list 7 years after that.

How the coolest search engine in the world appeared, what rules you need to follow in order to succeed and when YouTube became the property of Brin - biography, fortune and history of the billionaire.

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Biography of Sergey Brin

• August 21, 1973 was born in Moscow.
• 1979 - emigrated with his parents to America.
• In 1993 received an early bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland and a National Endowment scholarship. In the same year he entered Stanford University.
• 1995 - received a master's degree, began working on a scientific dissertation, met Larry Page.
• 1996 year - wrote a scientific paper about the search engine together with Page, launched the first page of the program
• September 14, 1997 the domain google.com was officially registered.
• 1998 - search for investors, after which Google was registered on September 7th. He left his studies at Stanford and took up the development of a search engine.
• In 2001 Over 200 people worked for Google last year.
• 2004 - included in the Forbes list of the richest people in the world with $ 4 billion.
• In 2005 year, the state increased to $ 11 billion.
• 2006- purchase of You Tube for $ 1.65 billion, which became part of the Google Video system.
• 2007- married.
• In 2008 and 2011 Became a father for years, raising a boy and a girl.
• 2015 created the Alphabet Corporation, which owns all the companies owned by Google.
• In 2018– the corporation entered the TOP-500 of the best employers in the world.

Brin in the USSR

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born into a family of mathematicians in 1973 in Moscow. His parents, Jews by origin, were native Muscovites. Mom worked as an engineer, father is a famous mathematician. There were times in the Soviet Union when science was not given enough attention.

Sergei's father was denied admission to graduate school and was allowed to attend foreign scientific conferences. Mikhail Brin wrote his dissertation on his own, not even hoping to defend it. In 1979, under the program of emigration between countries, which began to be carried out in the USSR, the father of the future genius was issued a visa to leave the United States at a private invitation. Mikhail, together with his family - his wife, son and parents, left Soviet Union. There were many familiar mathematicians in the USA with whom he communicated and conducted research.

At the age of 6, Russian boy Sergey Brin turned into an American.

Brin in the USA

The family moved to college park- This is a small town in which the University of Maryland is located, where Sergey's father got a job. Mom became a NASA specialist.

As a student, the child surprised teachers with his homework, which he printed out on a printer. In the 70s, no one could even think about home computers and personal printers, because they were considered a luxury item.

The computer and printer were given to Sergey by his father, thereby determining the future fate of the boy. From that moment on, he had only computers in his head.

Where did Sergey Brin study?

After graduating from school, he entered University of Maryland where my father and grandmother taught. He received a bachelor's degree with honors ahead of schedule and was awarded a scholarship for the development of science. Sergey left for Silicon Valley, the center of all the country's tech and innovation companies, in order to develop his technical skills and make a choice in the field of high technologies.

Having studied all the possibilities and offers, Sergey Brin chose the most prestigious computer university Stanford University.

Strangers, when viewed from the outside, considered Brin a nerd, but he, like most of his peers, preferred parties and fun pastime than boring studies.

Of all the activities, he spent a lot of time only on gymnastics, dancing and swimming. Even then, an idea appeared in his brain, which in the future was implemented in the form of the Google search engine.

The history of the appearance of the system is quite comical, the young man liked to look at the images of girls on the Playboy website, but he was too lazy to waste time looking for new photos, he created a program that itself searched and downloaded pictures to a personal computer.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page - a story of acquaintance and partnership

While studying at Stanford, Brin met Larry Page. Together they created a world famous search engine. The first meeting of two geniuses was not positive, since each of them was proud, ambitious, uncompromising, but during their constant disputes, screams and debates, the phrase “ search system on which their relationship began to build.

It is still unknown whether this meeting had a fateful character. Most critics are inclined to believe that if Sergey had not met Larry, Google might not have appeared. Unfortunately, it is not known why only Sergey Brin is often used as the founder, although this is incorrect. Google is an ingenious project of two programmers - Sergey and Larry.

Google

After the idea appeared, young people forgot about having fun and spent days creating their brainchild.

In 1996, the first computer appeared on a computer at Stanford University. Google page. The first name was BackRub, which translated as "you to me, I to you" and was the scientific work of two graduate students.

The server with the hard drive was in Brin's dorm room, and the volume of the disk was one terabyte. The principle of the system was to make it difficult to find a page by request, but to sort them by the number of links, by their popularity. Google itself groups the search result by the frequency of views by other users. It is this principle of searching and providing information that has been developed.

After defending their dissertation, Sergey and Larry began to improve the system, which was gaining popularity. By 1998, about 10,000 people used their imperfect final work.

The Russian proverb that initiative should be punished has found application to young people. The university service began to consume a lot of traffic, the main consumer of which was the new search engine, and the system also allowed viewing the internal documents of the institution, access to which should have been limited. At this point, Sergei and Larry wanted to be expelled and accused of hooliganism. However, everything ended well and they left their studies on their own and continued to improve the program.

New name googol meant "one followed by one hundred zeros". The meaning of the name was that the database allows you to find information in huge number data from a large number users. University equipment could not technically support such a volume of requests, so an investor had to be found. The only one who responded to their proposal was the founder of the corporation Sun Microsystems Andy Bechtolsheim.

He did not listen to their presentation and immediately believed in success. The check was written out 2 minutes after I learned the name new program. However, due to his carelessness, the investor indicated in it the name not Googol, but Google, and in order to receive money by check, I had to register a company with that name.

Young people took academic leave. During the week, they called all my friends and relatives, collected money to register the company.

The first staff of the company - 4 people - Sergey Brin, Larry Page and 2 of their assistants. The main part of the money was spent on the development of the program and there was no money left for advertising. The efforts paid off. When in 1999 all the major media were already talking about a new and good Internet search engine. The number of users increased many times, Brin and Larry noted that the system could not be limited to a few servers and was supported by several thousand personal computers.

Sergey Brin's fortune by years - financial achievements

At the end of the year, Google ranked first in the top 100 largest global brands and its value reached $66 430 000 000 , which is more than the performance of such large corporations as Microsoft, General Electric, Coca-Cola.

In 2004, the company's shares rose sharply in price, Sergey and Larry achieved their success.

Sergey Brin lived for a long time in a 3-room apartment and drove an environmentally friendly Toyota Prius. But later he bought a house for $49 million, which consists of 42 rooms, the main of which are bedrooms, bathrooms, a fitness center, a swimming pool, a wine cellar, a bar and a basketball court.

The billionaire maintains a healthy lifestyle, goes in for sports and enjoys piloting an aircraft. This hobby was the reason for the purchase of the Boeing 767 aircraft, which was called the "Google Jet" for $ 25 million. Brin trains his skills on a training aircraft, and entrusted the management of the Jet to a professional team.

Family and personal life

For a long time, Sergey Brin devoted himself only to his program, and already having an impressive capital, he started a family in 2007. The chosen one was a graduate of Yale University, a biologist by education, Anna Wojcicki.

In 2008, the couple had a son Biji, in 2011 - daughter Chloe. However, the family broke up due to the betrayal of Sergei, with his employee Amanda Rosenberg.

In 2015, the couple officially filed for divorce. He was no longer married.

Sergey Brin and Jennifer Aniston

After the divorce in February 2017, unverified information began to appear that Jennifer Aniston meets with Sergey Brin. The reason for the relationship was Aniston's reluctance to communicate with men of creative professions and colleagues in the film industry. They were introduced by a mutual friend. Gwyneth Paltrow. However, the official representative of the actress said that these are rumors, and that Brin and Aniston are even strangers. Given the dislike of the participants in the rumors for publicity, there is no reliable information about their relationship, perhaps it will be later. Currently, Jennifer is involved in the filming of a new film and is enjoying the happiness of being alone.

The presence of a billion-dollar fortune and the success of the company did not spoil its founders. Long time Larry, Sergey and director of Google Eric Schmidt received an official salary of one dollar.

Brin has a great sense of humor, he owns one of the slogans:

“You can be serious in a company without a suit.”

The Google office is located in the center of Silicon Valley. The concept of work in the company is organized in such a way as to facilitate the work of employees and cheer them up. It is in this combination that the founders believe their ability to work will be maximum. For employees of the company provided - roller hockey, massage, piano music, free coffee and drinks. In the corridors of the office, you can meet a cat or a dog, as it is allowed to bring pets to work.

Specialists can spend 20% of their working time as they want - sleep, dream, drink coffee, do their own business. According to the company, it is in these 20% that a large share of all Google innovations is developed.

• Brin and Page are the 26th richest people in the world.
• Google donates 1% of its total profit to charity, which is more than $500 billion over the 10 years of the company's existence.

In Russia, Google is in second place after Yandex, but in Ukraine and Belarus it ranks first. Its total market share is 68%

Sergey Brin believes that the Internet should be free, and all information should be provided free of charge, therefore he perceives Apple and Facebook organizations negatively, since the concept of their work does not meet these requirements. Brin does not support the idea of ​​fighting Internet piracy due to the fact that it has become popular to block access to books, music, films.

Wikipedia received $ 500 million from the billionaire for development, as it corresponds to his views and principles of free access to information.

He actively funds anti-aging programs after his mother was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Genetic studies have shown that Brin can also get sick. He ordered to calculate the gene that is responsible for the appearance and development of the disease. From a mathematical point of view, Sergey is sure that in biology it is quite possible to build a disease code and eliminate the gene that causes harm, the main thing is to know what to fix.

Brin speaks positively about Russia, noting changes in the country, and the phrase about “Nigeria in the snow,” which he said a long time ago, under the influence of alcohol, does not officially confirm.

Brin believes that

“Everyone wants to be successful in life, but first of all, I would like to be thought of as a person who came up with many interesting things, and ultimately managed to change the world for the better.”

He has many quotes that managers around the world use because they are as accurate and meaningful as computer code.

Sergey Brin rules

A few rules for success are represented by his sayings:

1. As soon as there are too many rules, innovation disappears.
2. Big problems are easier to solve than small ones.
3. They always say that money can't buy happiness. However, somewhere deep inside I always had the idea that a lot of money can still bring a piece of happiness. Actually it is not.
4. The more often you try and stumble, the more likely you are to stumble upon something worthwhile.
5. We don't have to be the same all the time, looking back and mournfully exclaiming: "Oh, I dream that everything remains the same as before."
6. The Internet has become great because it is open to everyone, there was no company that controlled it.
7. We want Google to be the third part of your brain.
8. Running a company like this is always stressful. But I do sports.
9. To do something important, you have to overcome the fear of failure.
10. Always give more than expected.
11. If we did everything for money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and were relaxing on the beach.

Sergey Brin made a revolution thanks to his laziness, and later implemented in his search engine all the needs of an ordinary network user.

Today, Google has gone far beyond a simple search engine, and the corporation includes many companies that produce innovative equipment. In parallel with constant professional development, he established several charitable foundations.

Sergey Brin- the legend of the computer business, co-founder and president of technology at Google Inc., billionaire, now one of the richest people in America. Brin is a Russian, first named "Person of the Year" by the Financial Times, not as an actor, politician or oligarch, but as a mathematician who became famous throughout the world for his own creation of the mind - the Google search engine. Many people know that Sergei was born in Moscow, but not everyone is familiar with his biography in more detail.

Success Story, Biography of Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born in Moscow on August 21, 1973 in a Jewish family. His father Mikhail Brin was a mathematician, his mother Evgenia was an engineer. Papa Brin recalls that in the USSR he was constantly faced with deaf anti-Semitism. It’s not that they drove him from somewhere - they just tried not to let him go anywhere. He dreamed of being an astronomer and wanted to study physics at the university, but was refused because the Communist Party forbade Jews to study at the departments of physics in order to cut off their access to the country's nuclear secrets. Then he decided to study mathematics and was able to become a student, despite the fact that the entrance exams for Jews were held separately, in rooms notorious as "gas chambers". He received his diploma with honors. Later, he received his doctorate and became a researcher at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In the late 1970s, Jewish families began to leave the Soviet Union for permanent residence. Mikhail Brin, who had acquaintances abroad at mathematical congresses, together with his family in July 1979, found himself in the forefront of emigrants. Sergey Brin turned six years old already on American soil.

The Soviet mathematical school was valued, and soon the head of the family got a job as a teacher at the University of Maryland in College Park, and his wife became a scientist at the National Aeronautics and Research Agency outer space(NASA). The grandmother had the hardest time in the family - she was shocked when she had to take a driver's license exam in order to take her grandson to school.

Childhood and youth of Sergey Brin

In America Sergey Brin visited primary school, where the training was conducted according to the Montessori system (Paint Branch Montessori School), in Adelphi, Maryland. He now considers studying at this school one of the starting points of his success in life, but admits that sometimes he got bored, because mathematics was taught there so primitively. Additional education the boy received at home. His parents not only helped him to maintain his knowledge of the Russian language, but also in every possible way encouraged his son's early interest in mathematics and computer science. Suffice it to say that, although in the early 1980s. the presence of computers at home was still very rare, his first computer - Commodore 64 - Sergey received from his father as a birthday present when he was 9 years old. Soon, he surprised school teachers by presenting an unusual, for those times, project prepared on a computer and printed on a printer. Grandmother lamented: Serezhenka has only computers in his head. What will happen to him?»

After graduating from school in 1990, Sergey Brin entered the University of Maryland, where his father taught, at the Faculty of Mathematics. He received a "red" bachelor's degree in "computer systems and mathematics" ahead of schedule and earned a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, which allows him to no longer worry about financing education.

Stanford

continued educational process already on the West Coast of the USA, in the city of Palo Alto, in the most prestigious "computer university" in the USA, located in California's Silicon Valley - Stanford University. Some American universities allow students with bachelor's degrees to apply directly to doctoral studies and receive a master's degree in the process of studying. The university gets the opportunity to "harness" talented students to long-term research projects, and students can not be distracted by earnings on the side.

Brin liked math, but there were no "life plans". The list of disciplines he chose amazed the professors: dancing, yachting, swimming, gymnastics ... As Mikhail Brin recalls, when he asked his son if he was going to enroll in more advanced courses, Sergey replied: “ I already did that - signed up for advanced swimming».

In addition to his chosen disciplines, during his time at Stanford, Brin showed an interest in Internet technology research and, in particular, search engines almost from the beginning. He has authored and co-authored a number of papers relating to methods for extracting information from unstructured sources and searching for information in large collections of texts and scientific data. In addition, he developed software for converting scientific papers created using the TeX word processor into HTML format.

The decisive moment in biographies of Sergey Brin came in March 1995, when at a spring meeting of new PhD candidates in computer science, he met a young scientist named Larry Page, the future co-president of Google. Brin was assigned to escort Page around the campus. Initially, these two were not at all enthusiastic about each other and argued furiously, discussing any topic. However, it soon became clear that both of them were extremely interested in the problem of extracting information from large data sets. Sergei and Larry became friends while developing a new Internet search engine for their college dorm. The next important stage of cooperation was the writing of the joint work "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" (The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine), which is believed to contain the germ of their future grandiose idea. Among the scientific works of Stanford University, this work ranks 10th in terms of the level of interest it arouses.

The scientific work of friends concerned the search for information in millions of documents posted on the World Wide Web. " When we looked at the Internet, we did not read horoscopes there and did not go to dating sites. We were interested in search - the information that really affects people's lives', Brin recalls. Sergey wrote one working search program back in 1994. She automatically “climbed” the Playboy website and looked for new pictures, which she uploaded to the screensaver on Brin’s computer.

Now the guys were interested in searching not on one site, but on the entire Web. In January 1996, in preparation for their doctoral dissertations, Brin and Page began working together on research project designed to fundamentally improve the methods of searching for information on the Internet. Realizing that the most popular data is often the most useful, the young scientists hypothesized that a search engine that analyzes the relationship between Web sites and ranks the results according to the popularity of certain pages should be more efficient than existing systems. In the search engines used at that time, the ranking of results, as a rule, depended on how many times the search word appeared on the page.

Convinced that the most important Web pages for data retrieval are those that are most often linked to by other pages that are themselves highly relevant, Brin and Page set out to prove the point in their university research. The new system was originally called "BackRub" because it tested the number and relevance of backlinks to gauge the informational importance of a site. It was later named "PageRank".

Founding and development of Google

Thus, the basis for creating their own search engine was the verification of a scientific thesis. The search engine was originally hosted on the Stanford University website under the domain google.stanford.edu. The google.com domain was registered on September 14, 1997.

The origin of the name "Google" itself, which arose from " light hand” investors as a result of a changed spelling of the word “googo”, which means 10 to the hundredth power (the latter, in turn, was coined by the nine-year-old nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner). In fact, Brin and Page originally called the company “Googol,” but the investors to whom they presented their project mistakenly wrote a check to Google.

During the first half of 1998, researchers were developing a new, promising technology. Page's dorm room at Stanford University served as a data center, Brin's room as a business office. Friends made an attempt to sell their idea, but it was not successful. Then they wrote a business plan and started looking for funds to create their own company. As a result, the total initial investment amounted to almost $1 million. The money was received from relatives and friends, as well as from investors, including a check for $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems.

In mid-1998, Brin and Page left their studies at Stanford University (although Brin is still officially considered to have taken a vacation there). The rest, they say, is history.

Actually, the history of Google began on September 7, 1998, when it was registered as a limited liability company. Its first office was a rented garage located in Menlo Park, California, and the number of employees was initially 4 people. At the same time, the Google search engine responded to 10,000 queries per day and, although still listed in the "second tier", was included by PC Magazine in the list of the 100 best Internet sites and search engines in 1998. The following year, the company moved to a new office in Palo Alto.

The number of satisfied users grew by leaps and bounds, the word "Google" was passed from mouth to mouth. The company needed funds to expand its business. At the same time, Brin and Page were by no means willing to lose control and allow Google to deviate from its main principle - to improve the world through the opening up of information. And here they again proved that they are able to find original solutions not only in the field of new technologies, but also in business organization. In 1999, they managed to convince two competing venture capital firms - Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers - to fund Google at the same time for a total of $25 million. According to David Wise, co-author of The History of Google, it was a classic divide and conquer maneuver. It allowed the founders of the company to prevent the possibility of serious influence from any of the investors, despite the fact that representatives of both companies entered the board of directors.

The ability of partners to think unconventionally also manifested itself during the boom in the dot.com industry. When the company's competitors were spending millions on advertising and marketing campaigns in the name of brand building, Google's executives were calmly and focused on improving their search engine and better user satisfaction. Brin believed that in terms of marketing, Google could rely on the help of users, since a significant proportion of those who use its search engine services recommend it to other users. As a result, the collapse of the Internet sector, which ended in the collapse of many young firms, did not prevent the further steady growth of Google, which in 2000 reached the level of profitability. A significant role in this success was played by the emergence of unobtrusive advertising texts located on the periphery of search results (in the early years of the company's operation, ads were not allowed to accompany search results).

The broad appeal of Google search became evident when the site received the Webby Award and the People's Choice Award for Technical Achievement in May 2000. In their speech, Larry and Sergey said only five words: “ We loveyou Google users! The following month, Google officially became the world's largest search engine, indexing a billion pages.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page carried the burden of managing the company until the number of employees exceeded 200 people. In the summer of 2001, they handed over the chief executive officer to Eric Schmidt, an industry veteran who had been invited as chairman a few months earlier and previously served as acting chairman and chief executive officer at Novell. However, they continue to firmly "keep their finger on the pulse", and no important decision can be made without their approval. In case of disagreement, the partners discuss the controversial issue in detail in private and develop a common position, which they present to others, speaking as a united front.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, the company began to launch special services, in particular, a news service, a search for scanned books, a demonstration geographical maps, postal service and others. As early as 2003, it was noted that Google Inc. became a leader in search and generated unexpected profits for such a young company, and its expansion required the company's office to be moved to a group of buildings in the California town of Mountain View.

Conducting an IPO

In August 2004, Google made its initial public offering on the NASDAQ under the stock symbol (GOOG). Again abandoning the beaten path, the company's executives ignored the traditional Wall Street methods of conducting an IPO, preferring the "Dutch" auction. In addition, they managed to anger the SEC, which was outraged by the fact that the interview was published in Playboy magazine during the so-called "quiet" period (the period before and some time after registration with the SEC, when it is forbidden to engage in advertising). In any case, the IPO generated significant investor interest.

The continuous growth of Google's business, which expanded through acquisitions and regularly created new types of Internet services, contributed to the rapid take-off of its shares. Having started trading at $85, they were worth five times as much in a little over a year. When the company held its initial offering, Sergey Brin and Larry Page named financier and multi-billionaire Warren Buffett as their "role model". And in January 2006, Google managed to catch up with Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. at market value. Some time ago, the company held a $4 billion secondary public offering (the number of shares was tied to an infinite numeric sequence of pi), which stirred up rumors about possible upcoming acquisitions.

True, experts spoke about the greater stability of Berkshire papers in the long term and about the high cost of Google shares in terms of earnings, orders and sales. At the same time, most analysts predict for stocks Google further strong growth, indicating a growing stream of advertising revenue and the constant addition of new services. So, according to Mark Stalman from Caris & Co, if the company expands its services in the areas of online finance and healthcare, its sales volume could reach $100 billion in the future, and the share price could increase significantly.

Google Inc has been constantly expanding its activities. So, in the fall of 2006, Google Inc. bought for $1.6 billion YouTube, a well-known Internet project designed to showcase video materials. Since 2007 Google Inc. also began to pay special attention to new advertising markets such as mobile advertising, as well as special projects related to the computerization of healthcare.

The market value of Google Inc. in 2008 was estimated at about $100 billion.

From the very beginning, the creators of Google thought globally, striving with the help of innovative technologies to organize not only the Internet (which in itself is a huge enterprise), but the entire information system, so that it becomes available to everyone. In recent years, Google has undergone drastic changes, evolving from an Internet search engine to a massive system spanning news, catalogues, product and service advertisements, maps, e-mail, and more. However, as Brin pointed out, it has not moved into the category of a media company, but has remained a technology company trying to apply technology to media. The company fundamentally works with the entire complex of world knowledge, there are simply different approaches to this issue. Because in modern society people cannot do without information - their career depends on it, self-education, health, etc. - Google's influence on the spiritual state of the world will, according to Brin, become stronger.

Sergey Brin's fortune

Against the backdrop of a powerful increase in stocks, the personal fortunes of the founders of Google in the period following the IPO showed a dizzying rise. Since August 2004, Brin and Page have outpaced computer business giants Bill Gates and Paul Allen in terms of revenue growth. In 2004, for the first time, the partners appeared on the list of billionaires published by the authoritative Forbes magazine - with $ 1 billion each. In 2005, Brin's fortune was already estimated by Forbes at $ 11 billion, and he shared with Page the 16th place in the Forbes 400 list of the richest US citizens. In addition, Brin was the second among Americans under the age of 40. For 2011, his personal fortune is $ 16.7 billion. It should be noted that, starting from the II quarter of 2004, when Google was preparing for an IPO and up to the present, Brin, Page and Schmidt receive $ 1 a year as a base salary, fully counting on receiving options and increasing the value of shares.

corporate spirit

For two years now, Google has been ranked #1 in Fortune magazine's Top 100 Employers in the United States. For staff, there is free home delivery, nursing rooms, full health insurance, and Google stock options for 99% of employees.

The company has a special atmosphere of corporate spirit, supported by its founders. The headquarters, located in Mountain View, in the heart of Silicon Valley, known as the "Googleplex", has many quirks designed to make employees happier. This includes piano music, massage, and a wide selection of sports equipment. This, of course, is also humor, which has become an integral part of the image of a young company - from funny drawings on the homepage and riddles in public announcements to famous April Fools' jokes. You can bring your pets to work, hot and cold drinks are freely available in all offices and halls, free meals, as well as many other privileges that all employees of the company can enjoy.

Each member of the Google team can spend part of their working time (20%) on projects that interest them. A good number of the company's services, including Gmail, Google News, and orkut, are the result of such independent research. And Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products, believes that this 20% of the time devoted to free creativity accounts for at least half of the innovations developed at the company.

Corporate events held in the company also help to strengthen relationships in the team and set people up to achieve the same goal. It can be trainings, fascinating conversations with employees from different departments in a cafe, collective cycling on rough terrain, roller hockey, racing bikes or playing a flying saucer.

Charity

Brin's company is making giant philanthropic investments. The founders of the company said that over 20 years, 20 billion dollars will be spent on this goal. Brin separates charity from philanthropy - " Many companies want to do good things by giving money for them. We want to do charity in such a way that these projects are part of the company - this is much more effective.».

Personal and family life Sergey Brin

In May 2007, Sergey Brin married Anna Wojitsky. Anna graduated from Yale University in 1996 with a degree in biology and founded 23andMe (Google invested $3.9 million in the project). Before the wedding, the young had known each other for about 8 years. Anna's sister, Susan, once rented out to Sergey Brin and his partner Larry Page the garage in which the history of Google began. Subsequently, this garage was purchased by Google itself at an auction. In December 2008, Brin and Anna had a son, who was named Benji Wojin (the child's name is a combination of his father's and mother's surnames).

In an interview with one of the newspapers, Sergey Brin's father said that Sergey behaves quite modestly - he still lives in a three-room apartment and does not drive a Mercedes, which would be more befitting of status, but a Toyota Prius with an environmentally friendly hybrid engine. He also likes to visit Katya's Russian Tea Room in San Francisco and recommend borscht, dumplings and pancakes to his guests.

But, despite the words of his father, we can safely say that Sergey Brin is distinguished by original, sometimes eccentric actions. For example, in 2005 he bought a Boeing 767 designed for 180 people for personal use. Brin and Page acted as producers of the film "Broken arrows", which was directed by Reid Gershbein. In September 2007, Brin and Page offered a $20 million bonus to anyone who would build a private spacecraft, which can reach the Moon, and in June 2008, Brin himself announced his intention to fly to the International Space Station in 2011 as a space tourist, but Roscosmos announced the impossibility of such a trip.

Sergey Brin He is the author of dozens of publications in leading American academic journals, and also periodically speaks at various national and international scientific, business and technology forums. He often speaks to the press, on television, talking about his views on search technology and the IT industry as a whole.

Brin is fond of gymnastics. In addition, like many Google employees, he often roller-skates around the office and plays roller hockey during breaks. He prefers jeans, sneakers, and blazers for clothing, and he still buys groceries at Costco while always looking at the price tags.

On the this moment Sergei is a worthy citizen of America, and he never forgave Russia, which rejected his parents. During his life, Sergei was at home only 3 times and did not feel any nostalgia for her.

Sergey Brin's success secrets

When journalists asked Brin's father what is the secret of your son's success, he replied - " Apparently, one of the reasons is this: when we came to America, we were young, we had a different starter, we were enthusiastic about everything - how to live, how to study, how to work, how to raise children. . And that's how we raised Seryozha. But, most importantly, here, of course, there are much more opportunities for him than there would be in Russia».

First of all, this is an example of how scientific talent, creative search, courage, experiments and non-standard solutions can pave the way for the American dream.

In an interview, Brin said, - " Internet research seems to be very relevant these days, and I am no exception.". In fact, the exclusivity of Brin and his partner lies not in what they do, but in how they approach their business. They strive to be “different” in everything from the famous corporate motto “Don’t be evil”, reminiscent of the hippie philosophy prevalent in the US in the 1960s, to an unorthodox corporate structure and an unparalleled commitment to philanthropy.

In conclusion, it is worth quoting one more statement by Sergey Brin, which, perhaps, briefly and clearly expresses his life credo: “ Obviously, everyone wants to succeed, but I want to be thought of as a major innovator, a person of high morals, trustworthy and, ultimately, a big change in this world.».

Here he is, a scientist, the founder of the world's largest search engine, a billionaire, a great original, a native of Moscow Sergey Brin ...

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Today, many of us simply cannot imagine a world without such giants of the technology industry as Google, Facebook, Twitter and others. Although, of course, there were times when these companies did not exist, and their founders were ordinary people like you and me.

Of course, how they achieved success can be an interesting story with a happy ending, which will teach each of us something. It is not for nothing that many ordinary Internet users are so interested in the biographies of well-known companies, and at the same time, the people who stand behind them. For such, in fact, this article will be published.

In it, we will tell the story of the formation of one of the most famous brands in the world - a search engine, the name of which is spelled with two "o" (in English). And no, it's not Yahoo. Our story will be dedicated to those who are called "the founders of Google" - two business partners, one of whom has Russian roots.

How it all started

Surprisingly, the development of the modern Internet giant began back in 1996. Then two graduates of Stanford University - Larry Page and Sergey Brin - worked on a common project. The purpose of the latter was to systematize information in the form of a catalog and its further processing. At the time of the creation of such a product, the founders of Google, of course, did not know what all this could result in. They were, in fact, simple graduate students who came up with an original approach. He, in turn, repeatedly justified himself.

At the initial stage, as is known from many sources, the developers of the Backrub project experienced a significant lack of finances. For this reason, they often had to literally assemble functional solutions from parts of obsolete computers that had become unusable. Despite this, the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, were able to show good results already in 1997. Everyone began to learn about their information search system on the Internet. more people in university.

Finding a buyer

Few people know, but in 1998, shortly after the start of the development of their technology, the founders of Google intended to sell all the results of their work. There were several reasons for this - the guys did not want to continue working on the project; they understood that they could just make good money on this innovation and start something new, more interesting. In order to find an interested buyer, they even set up a special office. Some connections (in particular, with the founder of Yahoo, the largest search engine at that time), the founders of Google were able to establish. True, David Filo was not interested in the system at the level to invest in it. He gave advice to the guys that they should further refine their search project (even then it was called Google), and if they succeeded, they would sell it already in finished form.

First office

It is noteworthy, but the first office space, which housed three employees of the company, was a garage. His guys rented in Menlo Parenna (California). At this point, the service was already available on the Internet; every day it was visited by about 10 thousand people who were looking for information of one kind or another.

The success that every founder of Google has achieved, even at that time, can be called unlikely. This is evidenced by the fact that some authoritative US publications have placed the site in the "Top 100" rating of technological portals in the world.

The dizzying growth continued. In 1999, the company processed about 500,000 requests per day on its portal. The founders of Google, whose photo you see below, were able to attract several investments from advanced funds totaling $ 25 million. The money went to buy servers and expand the capabilities of the search engine.

Larry Page

If we talk about this figure at Google, then, after reading the biography of Page, you will not be surprised by the choice of his profession. Larry's parents are professor computer science and a programming teacher. He was born in 1973, and today, at 42, Page is a dollar billionaire. This founder of Google deservedly enters the top twenty of the Forbes.com rating with his fortune.

According to media reports, he is married, lives in the US and owns his own Boeing 767.

Sergey Brin

For us, Brin's biography is more interesting, if only for the reason that this founder of Google is Russian. According to data from the public domain, at the age of 6 he left Moscow, where he lived with his parents - teachers of Moscow State University (Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty). Later, Brin's father began to work at Stanford, and his mother went to NASA. Studying for a master's degree at the same university, Sergey became interested in search engines, as a result of which he began the first steps to create Google back then.

Brin is currently married and has a son. Like Page, he is in the top 20 Forbes rankings of his wealth.

Basis for success

As we can see, the success in the field of Internet search and development of online services, the founders of Google, Sergey Brin (photo below) and Larry Page, did not find it by chance. In fact, such a sharp rise was preceded by a long work. Both were from an intelligent family of specialists in mathematics and technology. Both grew up in the United States - the land of technological opportunities at that time. Every founder of Google worked hard to improve search technology, with building a company and making money last in line. This is evidenced by the fact that a private company based on this technology was created after its repeated testing. Moreover, the guys wanted to sell their work and "disperse" in their own interests. There are even rumors that at the beginning of joint work they could not even tolerate each other because of too different characters. However, as we see, fate decided otherwise.

Building positions

The growth of Google's presence in the Internet search market has been enormous. At that time, Yahoo, WebAlta, AltaVista were the undisputed leaders. As you know, today none of them can compete with Google in terms of its capitalization. In a very short time, a little-known university project was able to bypass the “sharks of business”.

Experts believe that the explanation for the fact that Google founder Sergey Brin and his partner Larry Page were able to consolidate their efforts so successfully lies in the idea. It was to develop a perfect search technology. At the same time, companies like Yahoo at that time paid attention to profits and income from other types of business. The direction of Internet search as of 98-99 was considered unprofitable and unpromising. Perhaps Page and Brin simply did not know about it.

Creation of new businesses

But today, when the Google search engine is the absolute and undisputed leader in search throughout the world, the development team conducts completely different types of business. It can be said that after a successful start in the field of searching and systematizing information, the founders of the system began to work in other areas.

In particular, this is the Youtube video blogging service (which is the leader in terms of the volume of videos posted on it); Blogger.com, the most popular blogging platform, Google Plus social network, Google Drive data hosting drive, Google Adsense advertising and much more. We will tell a little more about each of these types of business from the search giant in separate parts of the article.

Social media

The most popular projects, as time has shown, are social networks. This is explained by the fact that people by nature tend to communicate, establish relationships with each other, make acquaintances, and so on. One of the most famous in the world is the service launched by the search engine - it is called Google Plus. This is an identification platform that not only allows the user to find their friends and communicate with them, but also makes it possible to express their opinion about a particular resource on the Internet by leaving the appropriate "label" - the so-called "plus". This, in turn, contributes to the improvement of the mechanisms developed by Google to evaluate sites. The ones that get more upvotes deserve a higher position in the SERPs. As of 2013 in social network over 500 million registered users.

For the company, thanks to the merger of different services together, a single image is created, positions in different niches are strengthened solely due to the name. For the user, which is important, it increases convenience and comfort in work. A person, as already mentioned, does not need to move from one account to another - for all this there is a unified authorization system. With it, there is no need to use third-party services - all tasks can be completed quickly and easily on one site, and that is Google.

Mobile platforms

Speaking about the achievements of the search giant, one cannot fail to mention the world's most popular mobile operating system. To be more precise, the history of Android began as another startup that served as a platform for work mobile devices. Google bought it in 2005. For many specialists in the IT industry, this was a real surprise - few could say why the search engine needed the development of a mobile OS. Today, years after that deal, everyone can say that this step was very successful. According to platform distribution statistics, in 2014 there were more than 1.6 billion devices with this operating system in the world, which accounted for about 75% of the entire market. With numbers like that, even mobile device leader Apple, which has its own iOS operating system, which is often contrasted with Android, cannot compete for the market in this scenario.

Although the site is open-sourced (some device manufacturers can create their own modifications of this OS), Google's earnings on it are significant due to, for example, the same Google Play - a content store. In addition, manufacturers using the platform must pay licensing fees.

prospects

It is difficult to assess the full breadth of prospects that are open to such a strong player in the IT market as Google. The company is growing every day by expanding its catalog of businesses, constantly buying up the most promising startups. It is now hard to imagine that any other brand could overcome Google in the field of Internet search. We can safely say that while the positions of this giant remain unshakable for any of the competitors, including the popular search engines Bing, Yahoo, Aol, Yandex, Baidu and others, due to certain circumstances. All over the world, the Google brand is known as a leader, and this will not change soon.

In general, you know who the founders of Google are and how they managed to create this empire. For each of us, this story can be a good lesson that everything in this life is possible. The main thing is to strive to achieve your goals and constantly work on yourself.