Larry Page: The Story Behind the Fortune
Larry Page co-founded Google with Sergey Brin at Stanford in 1998 and served as CEO of both Google and, later, its parent company Alphabet. He stepped back from day-to-day leadership in 2019 but remains a controlling shareholder.
Larry Page co-founded Google with Sergey Brin at Stanford in 1998 and served as CEO of both Google and, later, its parent company Alphabet. He stepped back from day-to-day leadership in 2019 but remains a controlling shareholder.
Larry Page built this fortune from the ground up — a self-made success in technology & internet.
He studied at Stanford University and is based in Palo Alto, California.
A few of the highlights on the public record: Co-created the PageRank algorithm that powered Google search; Stepped down as Alphabet CEO in 2019 but retains voting control; Has funded aviation and flying-car startups.
The journey to get here is well documented. In 1995, began the research collaboration behind Google's search algorithm. In 1998, founded Google with Sergey Brin, initially operating out of a garage in Menlo Park. In 2004, took Google public. In 2015, took the chief executive role of newly formed parent company Alphabet. In 2019, left the CEO role to Sundar Pichai, remaining a controlling shareholder.
On net worth alone, the closest companies are Sergey Brin ($254.31B) and Elon Musk ($417.59B) — a reminder of how tightly bunched the very top of the wealth list really is.
Today, Larry is worth an estimated $265.03B — #4 in the world on our real-time list, a figure that moves with GOOGL's share price.