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Lawrence Edward Page said Larry Page, born on East Lansing in Michigan, is an American billionaire and computer scientist.He is with Sergey Brin the co -founder of the Google company.

Larry Page

Larry Page was born into a Jewish family in East Lansing, Michigan, the United States,.

He is the son of two university professors: Gloria Weinstein (1944-), Programming professor at the University of Michigan, and Carl V. Page (1938-1996), professor of computer science and artificial intelligence’University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and the University of Michigan.Carl Page is notably a pioneer and a reference in the field of artificial intelligence.

As the son of computer teachers, the fascination of Larry Page for IT started very early.

As a child, he has expressed great interest in technology, businesses and innovation.His passion for computer science and technology notably started at the age of six, and his idol was then Nikola Tesla.In addition, Larry Page dreamed of creating his own business from the age of 12.He was also the first child in his school to do a work under word processing.

Larry Page obtained a diploma in computer engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995. After that, he decided to focus on computer engineering, and then registered at Stanford University for their doctoral program.In his doctoral thesis, he wanted to explore the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web.The development of this thesis was notably under the supervision of Terry Winograd, an eminent specialist in artificial intelligence.

Larry Page is the inventor of the PageRank process for classification of web pages according to their popularity.

In 2002, the World Economic Forum awarded him the title of “leader International of the economy of the future ”and, in 2004, he received the Marconi Prize.

The, Eric Schmidt, Managing Director (CEO, in English) of Google since 2001, announces on the official blog of Google that Larry Page will become his successor to the post of Managing Director from.

Larry Page is engaged in the transhumanist movement.

The, Larry Page announces that he leaves his post as CEO of alphabet and that he is replaced by the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai.He also retains his post as CEO of Google.

Larry Page and the co -founder of Google and president of Alphabet, Sergey Brin, announced the modification in a common blog article: “Alphabet is now well established and Google and the other bets operate effectively as independent business.The time has therefore come to simplify our management structure.We have never had to keep management roles when we think there is a better way to direct society.And Alphabet and Google no longer need two CEOs and a president.»»

Larry Page had a relationship with Marissa Mayer.

He got married, with it, a researcher in medical biology.

The, it reveals to suffer from a partial paralysis of the vocal cords and to have therefore lost part of its vocal capacity.

In, the magazine Forbes Class Larry Page and Sergey Brin in place of its classification of the largest fortunes on the planet with $ 7.2 billion each.

In, the Financial Times designates strand and page “Men of the year”.

In 2006, Forbes Locates Larry Page in place of its classification of the largest fortunes on the planet with $ 12.8 billion.His partner Sergey Brin is with $ 12.9 billion.

In 2007, Forbes Larry page class in place of its ranking of the largest fortunes in the United States with $ 18.5 billion.He is ex aequo With his partner Sergey Brin.

In , Forbes The class instead of its ranking of the largest fortunes on the planet with 24.9 billion dollars.

In 2014, Larry Page’s fortune was over $ 32 billion.He is the richest person in the world.

In 2016, according to Forbes, his fortune is estimated at 36.4 billion dollars, which therefore places him on the rank on the list of billionaires in the world of magazine.

Still according to Forbes, his fortune amounts to $ 54 billion in 2018 and $ 50.8 billion in 2019.

In, after Bloomberg.com, his fortune reaches $ 90 billion, which makes him the richest seventh man in the world.

In, according to Forbes, his fortune is estimated at 82.2 billion dollars, which places him on the rank on the list of billionaires in the world.