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** CEO of Google **
 * Larry Page **

Larry Page was born on March 26, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan. He graduated from East Lansing High in 1991, and he went on to get a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Michigan. Later, his supervisor, Terry Winograd, encouraged him to create a search engine. In 1995, Page met Sergey Brin, the eventual co-founder of Google, during a campus tour of a university. Finally, in 1998 Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc., an event that would change computing forever. Until 2001 Page served as co-president with Brin. In 2001, they hired Eric Schmidt as CEO and Chairman at Google. Then, on January 20, 2011, Larry Page was chosen to replace Schmidt, and become CEO of Google. In 2002, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were named one of the top one-hundred innovators of all time by MIT Technology. Page kept his business going by coming out with new widgets every so often. In 2011, he was listed the twenty-fourth on Forbes top one-hundred richest people in the world. At Google, he helped innovated YouTube and Chrome. Those alone generate over forty-five percent of Google’s revenue. More recently, he created Google Plus (Google+). Google+ is a social networking site that has added widgets that enhance it. Page said that it was a breakthrough for Google and that it can compete with Facebook. Larry Page changed the course of history and made computing easy for everyone.

“If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach” – Larry Page



Wikipedia. //Larry Page//. 3 November, 2011.