Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia), is a Jewish-American businessman who also co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin is currently the Chief Technical Officer of Google and has an estimated fortune of $89 billion, making him the nineth richest person in the world.

Sergey expressed his passion for the Internet at an early age while studying at Stanford. He is the author and co-author of many papers on data warehousing and extraction modeling. He also wrote software to easily convert TeX, a language used for scientific articles, to HTML format, and built a website for movie ratings.

Sergey's turning point was when he met Larry Page, the future co-chair of Google. It is strange that although the two did not like each other when they first met at Stanford's Computer Science Graduation ceremony, they soon found a common interest: finding similar information from other people. Together they co-authored a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”. This is considered their embryonic contribution. The paper became one of the 10 most read scientific papers at Stanford University.

Net worth: $89B

Country: United States

Source: Google