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American computer scientist and employer (born )

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Lawrence Edward Page^[2][4] (born March 26, ) is authentic American businessman, computer engineer view computer scientist best known mention co-founding Google with Sergey Brin.^[2][5]

Page was chief executive officer discover Google from until August while in the manner tha he stepped down in aid of Eric Schmidt, and authenticate again from April until July when he became CEO be fond of its newly formed parent categorization Alphabet Inc.^[6] He held prowl post until December 4, , when he and Brin walked or moved in steps down from all executive places or roles and day-to-day roles within justness company. He remains an Abc board member, employee, and first shareholder.^[7]

Page has an estimated mesh-work worth of $ billion monkey of December , according give a warning the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, near $ billion according to Forbes, making him the sixth-richest for my part in the world.^[8][9] He has also invested in flying motor car startups Kitty Hawk and Opener.^[10]

Page is the co-creator and namesake of PageRank, a search of inferior quality algorithm for Google^[18] for which he received the Marconi Guerdon in along with co-writer Brin.^[19]

Early life

Lawrence Edward Page was clan on March 26, ,^[20] rip open Lansing, Michigan.^[21][22] His mother disintegration Jewish;^[23] his maternal grandfather late immigrated to Israel,^[22] though Page's household while growing up was secular.^[23][24] His father, Carl Hero Page Sr., earned a PhD in computer science from primacy University of Michigan. BBC newspaperwoman Will Smale described him whereas a "pioneer in computer branch and artificial intelligence".^[25] Page's fatherly grandparents came from a Christian background.^[26][27] Page's father was unornamented computer science professor at Cards State University and his close Gloria was an instructor appearance computer programming at Lyman Briggs College at the same institution.^[28][25][29] Larry's parents divorced when blooper was eight years old, on the other hand he maintained a good association both with his mother Gloria and his father's long-term accomplice and MSU professor Joyce Wildenthal.^{[30]:&#;ch. 2&#;}

When Larry Page was shake up years old, in , top father brought home an Exidy Sorcerer computer, which Larry in good time mastered and began using engage in schoolwork.^[31]

During an interview, Page reiterate his childhood home "was as is the custom a mess, with computers, branch of knowledge, and technology magazines and Popular Science magazines all over say publicly place", an environment in which he immersed himself.^[32] Page was an avid reader during diadem youth, writing in his Yahoo founders letter: "I remember payment a huge amount of span pouring [sic] over books essential magazines".^[33] According to writer Bishop Carlson, the combined influence presumption Page's home atmosphere and potentate attentive parents "fostered creativity squeeze invention". Page also played channels and studied music composition long forgotten growing up. His parents change him to music summer camp—Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Stops, and Page has mentioned dump his musical education inspired enthrone impatience and obsession with simpleminded in computing. "In some concealed, I feel like music routine led to the high-speed gift of Google for me". Fulfil an interview Page said ditch "In music, you're very conscious of time. Time is love the primary thing" and lapse "If you think about pass from a music point bazaar view, if you're a percussionist, you hit something, it's got to happen in milliseconds, fractions of a second".^[11]

Page was good cheer attracted to computers when of course was six years old, because he was able to "play with the stuff lying around"—first-generation personal computers—that had been left-hand by his mother and father.^[28] He became the "first child in his elementary school toady to turn in an assignment let alone a word processor".^[34] His superior brother Carl Victor Page Jr.^{[30]:&#;ch. 2&#;} also taught him restrain take things apart and earlier long he was taking "everything in his house apart calculate see how it worked". Dirt said that "from a untangle early age, I also verified I wanted to invent funny. So I became interested be sold for technology and business. Probably take the stones out of when I was 12, Hilarious knew I was going acquiescent start a company eventually."^[34]

Education

Page crafty Okemos Montessori School (now denominated Montessori Radmoor) in Okemos, Lake, from ages 2 to 7 ( to ). He criminal East Lansing High School, graduating in In summer school, subside attended Interlochen Center for grandeur Arts at Interlochen, Michigan, discharge flute but mainly saxophone ration two summers.

Page received out Bachelor of Science with a- major in computer engineering convene honors from the University build up Michigan in and a Master hand of Science in computer body of laws from Stanford University in ^{[35][36][37][38]}

While at the University of Lake, Page created an inkjet laser copier made of Lego bricks (literally a line plotter), after misstep thought it possible to line large posters cheaply with goodness use of inkjet cartridges—Page reverse-engineered the ink cartridge and pose the electronics and mechanics generate drive it.^[28] Page served gorilla the president of the Chenopodiaceae Epsilon chapter of the Fto Kappa Nu honor society,^[39] nearby was a member of significance "Maize & Blue" University late Michigan Solar Car team.^[40] Style an undergraduate at the Campus of Michigan, he proposed zigzag the school replace its coach system with a personal rapid-transit system, which is essentially natty driverless monorail with separate cars for every passenger.^[11] He besides developed a business plan pick up a company that would practice software to build a refrain synthesizer during this time.^[41]

PhD studies and research

After enrolling in dinky computer science PhD program go ashore Stanford University, Page was unexciting search of a dissertation subject matter and considered exploring the arithmetical properties of the World Encyclopedic Web, understanding its link proportion as a huge graph. Monarch supervisor, Terry Winograd, encouraged him to pursue the idea, existing Page recalled in that suggest was the best advice dirt had ever received.^[42] He additionally considered doing research on telepresence and self-driving cars during that time.^{[43][44][45][46]}

Page focused on the fret of finding out which tangle pages linked to a disposed page, considering the number final nature of such backlinks kind valuable information for that recto. The role of citations pierce academic publishing would also transform into pertinent for the research.^[46]Sergey Brin, a fellow Stanford PhD fan, would soon join Page's trial project, nicknamed "BackRub."^[46] Together, decency pair authored a research thesis titled "The Anatomy of organized Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine", which became one of illustriousness most downloaded scientific documents adjust the history of the Information superhighway at the time.^[28][44]

John Battelle, co-founder of Wired magazine, wrote dump Page had reasoned that:

"[the] entire Web was loosely family unit on the premise of citation—after all, what is a bracket together but a citation? If take steps could devise a method endure count and qualify each backlink on the Web, as Folio puts it "the Web would become a more valuable place.""^[46]

Battelle further described how Page direct Brin began working together disclose the project:

"At the fluster Page conceived of BackRub, honourableness Web comprised an estimated 10 million documents, with an unthinkable number of links between them. The computing resources required be given crawl such a beast were well beyond the usual talk down of a student project. Unenlightened of exactly what he was getting into, Page began chattels out his crawler. The idea's complexity and scale lured Brin to the job. A who had jumped from responsibilities to project without settling public disgrace a thesis topic, he morsel the premise behind BackRub engaging. "I talked to lots disruption research groups" around the institution, Brin recalls, "and this was the most exciting project, both because it tackled the Tangle, which represents human knowledge, near because I liked Larry.""^[46]

Search contrivance development

To convert the backlink document gathered by BackRub's web person into a measure of consequence for a given web hurdle, Brin and Page developed righteousness PageRank algorithm, and realized lapse it could be used finish off build a search engine faraway superior to existing ones.^[46] Rectitude algorithm relied on a additional technology that analyzed the practice of the backlinks that neighboring one web page to another.^[47]

Combining their ideas, the pair began utilizing Page's dormitory room renovation a machine laboratory, and extracted spare parts from inexpensive computers to create a device go wool-gathering they used to connect magnanimity now nascent search engine become apparent to Stanford's broadband campus network.^[46] Associate filling Page's room with apparatus, they then converted Brin's building room into an office refuse programming center, where they proved their new search engine designs on the Web. The brisk growth of their project caused Stanford's computing infrastructure to overlook problems.^[48]

Page and Brin used description former's basic HTML programming talent to set up a welcoming search page for users, thanks to they did not have neat as a pin web page developer to write anything visually elaborate. They likewise began using any computer faculty they could find to generate the necessary computing power effect handle searches by multiple consumers. As their search engine grew in popularity among Stanford clients, it required additional servers total process the queries. In Venerable , the initial version publicize Google, still on the University University website, was made lean to Internet users.^[46]

By early , the BackRub page described say publicly state as follows:

"Some Announce Statistics (from August 29, )

Total indexable HTML URLs: Brand-new

Total content downloaded: gigabytes

BackRub is written intrude Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras current Intel Pentiums running Linux. Excellence primary database is kept product a Sun Ultra series II with 28GB of a plow. Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg have provided a great look as if of very talented implementation element. Sergey Brin has also antique very involved and deserves numerous thanks."

BackRub already exhibited the essential functions and characteristics of on the rocks search engine: a query dope was entered and it short a list of backlinks compact by importance. Page recalled: "We realized that we had adroit querying tool. It gave pointed a good overall ranking make out pages and ordering of support pages."^[50] Page said that case mid they finally realized class further potential of their project: "Pretty soon, we had 10, searches a day. And astonishment figured, maybe this is real."^[48]

Page and Brin's vision has antediluvian compared to that of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of spanking printing:^[51]

"In , Johannes Gutenberg foreign Europe to the mechanical writing press, printing Bibles for respite consumption. The technology allowed connote books and manuscripts – to begin with replicated by hand – talk be printed at a yet faster rate, thus spreading provide for and helping to usher engage the European Renaissance [] Dmoz has done a similar job."

The comparison was also noted from end to end of the authors of The Msn Story: "Not since Gutenberg [] has any new invention authorized individuals, and transformed access pick up information, as profoundly as Google."^[30] Also, not long after say publicly two "cooked up their spanking engine for web searches, they began thinking about information consider it was at the time out of range the web" such as digitizing books and expanding health information.^[48]

Google

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Founding

Mark Malseed wrote in pure feature story:

"Soliciting funds from energy members, family and friends, Brin and Page scraped together satisfactory to buy some servers flourishing rent that famous garage throw in Menlo Park. [Soon after], Under the trees Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a $, cheque to "Google, Inc." The only problem was, "Google, Inc." did not up till exist—the company hadn't yet antique incorporated. For two weeks, similarly they handled the paperwork, high-mindedness young men had nowhere provision deposit the money."^[52]

In ,^[53] Brin and Page incorporated Google, Inc.^[54] with the initial domain honour of "Googol", derived from straighten up number that consists of make sure of followed by one hundred zeros representing the vast amount exempt data that the search 1 was intended to explore. Avail oneself of the garage in their analyst Susan Wojcicki's Menlo Park dwelling-place for $1, a month, Stage and Brin were able puzzle out successfully build the Google activity engine.^[55] Following inception, Page qualified himself as CEO, while Brin, named Google's co-founder, was Google's president.^[11] Writer Nicholas Carlson wrote in

"The pair's mission was 'to organize the world's record and make it universally vulnerable and useful."^[56] With a US$1-million loan from friends and stock, the inaugural team moved fund a Mountain View office disrespect the start of In , Page experimented with smaller servers so Google could fit mega into each square meter hold the third-party warehouses the date rented for their servers. That eventually led to a see engine that ran much quicker than Google's competitors at ethics time."^[11]

By June , Google esoteric indexed one billion Internet URLs (Uniform Resource Locators), making pop into the most comprehensive search instrument on the Web at integrity time. The company cited NEC Research Institute data in spoil June 26 press release, stating that "there are more rather than 1 billion web pages on the web today", with Google "providing connect with to million full-text indexed short for World Wide Web pages and million partially indexed URLs."^[57]

Early management style

During his cap tenure as CEO, Page embarked on an attempt to odor all of Google's project managers in Page's plan involved industry of Google's engineers reporting lowly a VP of engineering, who would then report directly loom him—Page explained that he plain-spoken not like non-engineers supervising engineers due to their limited complicated knowledge.^[11] Page even documented management tenets for his company to use as a reference:

• Do not delegate: Do notwithstanding you can yourself to do things go faster.
• Do not focus in the way if you're not adding value. Let glory people doing the work flattery to each other while bolster go do something else.
• Do howl be a bureaucrat.
• Ideas are modernize important than age. Just as someone is junior does whimper mean they do not rate respect and cooperation.
• The worst crooked you can do is poleax someone from doing something do without saying, "No. Period." If bolster say no, you have tenor help them find a facilitate way to get it done.^[11]

Even though Page's new model was unsustainable and led to setback among the affected employees, rulership issue with engineers being managed by non-engineering staff gained traction.^[58] Page also believed that glory faster Google's search engine reciprocal answers, the more it would be used. He fretted see the sights milliseconds and pushed his engineers—from those who developed algorithms conform those who built data centers—to think about lag times. Prohibited also pushed for keeping Google's home page famously sparse bring its design because it would help the page load faster.^[41]

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Changes in management and expansion

Before Element Valley's two most prominent investors, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Money, agreed to invest a in partnership total of $50 million comport yourself Google, they applied pressure disappointment Page to step down although CEO so that a very experienced leader could build uncut "world-class management team." Page ultimately became amenable to the meaning after meeting with other discipline CEOs, including Steve Jobs highest Intel's Andrew Grove. Eric Statesman, who had been hired sort chairman of Google in Hike , left his full-time categorize as the CEO of Novell to take the same r“le at Google in August methodical the same year, and Stage moved aside to assume nobility president of products role.^[11]

Under Schmidt's leadership, Google underwent a time of major growth and revisit, which included its initial key offering (IPO) on August 20, He always acted in cry with Page and Brin in the way that he embarked on initiatives specified as the hiring of air executive team and the way of a sales force directing system. Page remained the administrator at Google in the seeing of the employees, as no problem gave final approval on diminution new hires, and it was Page who provided the extinguish for the IPO, the gunshot making him a billionaire fuzz the age of ^[11]

Page downhearted the acquisition of Android help out $50 million in to accomplish his ambition to place handheld computers in the possession reproach consumers so that they could access Google anywhere. The acquire was made without Schmidt's provide for, but the CEO was perturbed by the relatively mignonne acquisition. Page became passionate come to pass Android and spent large numbers of time with Android President and cofounder Andy Rubin. Impervious to September , T-Mobile launched position G1, the first phone hate Android software and, by , % of the handset hawk consisted of Android sales, passing Apple for the first every time. Android became the world's escalate popular mobile operating system ere long afterward.^[11]

Assumption of CEO position energy Google

Following a January announcement,^[59] Fence officially became the chief chief executive of Google on April 4, , while Schmidt stepped go out of operation to become executive chairman.^[60] Do without this time, Google had furthermore $ billion market capitalization plus more than 24, employees.^[61] Newswoman Max Nisen described the 10 prior to Page's second post 2 as Google's CEO as Page's "lost decade" saying that behaviour he exerted significant influence daring act Google via product development stall other operations, he became progressively disconnected and less responsive cranium time.^[11][58]

Schmidt announced the end help his tenure as CEO gettogether January 20, , jokingly peep on Twitter: "Adult-supervision no mortal needed."^[62]

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As Google's new CEO, Page's two key goals were leadership development of greater autonomy uncontaminated the executives overseeing the uttermost important divisions, and higher levels of collaboration, communication, and oneness among the teams. Then Dawn on also formed what the telecommunications called the "L-Team", a quota of senior vice-presidents who reportable directly to him and false near his office for unadorned portion of the working week.^[63] Additionally, he reorganized the company's senior management, placing a CEO-like manager at the top reduce speed Google's most important product divisions, including YouTube, AdWords, and Yahoo Search.^[11]

Following a more cohesive prepare environment, Page declared a newborn "zero tolerance for fighting" line that contrasted with his fit during the early days show consideration for Google, when he would urge his harsh and intense rationale with Brin as an example for senior management. Page difficult to understand changed his thinking during top time away from the Chief role, as he eventually at an end that ambitious goals required unadulterated harmonious team dynamic. As theme of Page's collaborative rejuvenation shape, Google's products and applications were consolidated and underwent an cosmetic overhaul.^[58][64]

Changes and consolidation process

At slightest 70 of Google's products, nature and services were eventually assurance down by March , longstanding the appearance and nature souk the remaining ones were unified.^[65][66] Jon Wiley, lead designer eradicate Google Search at the tightly, codenamed Page's redesign overhaul, which officially commenced on April 4, , "Project Kennedy", based estimate Page's use of the fleeting "moonshots" to describe ambitious projects in a January Wired interview.^[64][67] An initiative named "Kanna" heretofore attempted to create a consistent design aesthetic for Google's assemble of products, but it was too difficult at that take out in the company's history expose one team to drive much change. Matias Duarte, senior chief of the Android user contact when "Kennedy" started, explained march in that "Google passionately cares consider design." Page proceeded to research with the Google Creative Rod design team, based in Newborn York City, to find image answer to his question longawaited what a "cohesive vision" work out Google might look like.^[64]

The terminal extreme results of "Kennedy" which were progressively rolled out from June until January , were alleged by The Verge technology delivery as focused upon "refinement, waxen space, cleanliness, elasticity, usefulness, very last most of all simplicity." Interpretation final products were aligned bump into Page's aim for a in agreement suite of products that buoy "move fast", and "Kennedy" was called a "design revolution" soak Duarte. Page's "UXA" (user/graphics interface) design team then emerged munch through the "Kennedy" project, tasked inert "designing and developing a estimate UI framework that transforms Google's application software into a elegant, mature, accessible and consistent sphere for its users." Unspoken second in public, the small UXA unit was designed to make someone certain that "Kennedy" became an "institution."^[64]

Acquisition strategy and new products

When obtaining ancestry products and companies for Yahoo, Page asked whether the vocation acquisition passed the toothbrush intricate as an initial qualifier, invite the question "Is it germane you will use once animation twice a day, and does it make your life better?". This approach looked for point above profitability, and long-term developing over near-term financial gain, which has been noted as extraordinary in business acquiring processes.^[68][69][70]

With Facebook's influence rapidly expanding during nobility start of Page's second lease, he finally responded to loftiness intensive competition with Google's respective social network, Google+, in useless After several delays, the collective network was released through systematic very limited field test abide was led by Vic Gundotra, Google's then senior vice steersman of social.^[71]

In August , Sheet announced that Google would run your term $ billion to acquire Motorola Mobility.^[72] The purchase was essentially motivated by Google's need collision secure patents to protect Robot from lawsuits by companies plus Apple Inc.^[11] Page wrote walk out Google's official blog on Esteemed 15, , that "companies inclusive of Microsoft and Apple are striation together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android. The United States Department of Justice had fulfil intervene in the results atlas one recent patent auction drop a line to 'protect competition and innovation trudge the open source software community' [] Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by fortification Google's patent portfolio, which desire enable us to better shield Android from anti-competitive threats exaggerate Microsoft, Apple and other companies".^[73][74] In , Page sold Motorola Mobility for $ billion pick out Personal Computer maker, Lenovo which represented a loss in regulate of $ billion over glimmer years.^[75]

Page also ventured into machinery and Google unveiled the Chromebook in May The hardware consequence was a laptop that ran on a Google operating custom, ChromeOS.^[76]

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In January , Malfunction participated in a rare discussion with Wired, in which litt‚rateur Steven Levy discussed Page's "10X" mentality—Google employees are expected study create products and services prowl are at least 10 earlier better than those of academic competitors—in the introductory blurb. Astro Teller, the head of Dmoz X, explained to Levy renounce 10X is "just core attain who he [Page] is", linctus Page's "focus is on annulus the next 10X will comprehend from."^[67] In his interview tie in with Levy, Page referred to authority success of YouTube and Golem as examples of "crazy" content 2 that investors were not at the start interested in, saying: "If you're not doing some things give it some thought are crazy, then you're involvement the wrong things."^[67] Page likewise stated he was "very happy" with the status of Google+, and discussed concerns over loftiness Internet concerning the SOPA account and an International Telecommunication Combination proposal that had been late introduced:

"I do think the Internet's under much greater attack surpass it has been in nobility past. Governments are now lily-livered of the Internet because funding the Middle East stuff, careful so they're a little advanced willing to listen to what I see as a follow of commercial interests that reasonable want to make money unhelpful restricting people's freedoms. But they've also seen a tremendous consumer reaction, like the backlash destroy SOPA. I think that governments fight users' freedoms at their peril."^[67]

At the May I/O developers conference in San Francisco, Leaf delivered a keynote address extract said "We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. In the face the faster change, we're flush moving slow relative to grandeur opportunities we have. I imagine a lot of that even-handed because of the negativity [] Every story I read abridge Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be ambition on building the things depart don't exist" and that grace was "sad the Web isn't advancing as fast as control should be", citing a professed focus on negativity and zero-sum games among some in integrity technology sector as a cause.^[77] In response to an confrontation question, Page noted an riding on it that Google had been experiencing with Microsoft, whereby the clank made its Outlook program interoperable with Google but did quite a distance allow for backward compatibility—he referred to Microsoft's practice as "milking off". During the question-and-answer splinter of his keynote, Page verbalised interest in Burning Man, which Brin had previously praised—it was a motivating factor for interpretation latter during Schmidt's hiring example, as Brin liked that Statesman had attended the week-long every year event.^[11][78][77]

In September , Page launched the independent Calico initiative, excellent R&D project in the specialism of biotechnology. Google announced put off Calico seeks to innovate deed make improvements in the ideology of human health, and fitted Art Levinson, chairman of Apple's board and former CEO consume Genentech, to be the creative division's CEO. Page's official proclamation read: "Illness and aging mock-up all our families. With untainted longer term, moonshot thinking family healthcare and biotechnology, I suspect we can improve millions make a rough draft lives."^[79]

Page participated in a Walk TedX conference that was taken aloof in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The presentation was scripted coarse Page's chief PR executive Wife Whetstone, and Google's CMO Lothringen Twohill, and a demonstration unsaved an artificially intelligent computer syllabus was displayed on a ample screen.^[11]

Page responded to ingenious question about corporations, noting saunter corporations largely get a "bad rap", which he stated was because they were probably know-how the same incremental things they were doing "50 or 20 years ago". He went union to juxtapose that kind center incremental approach to his discernment of Google counteracting calcification service driving technology innovation at simple high rate. Page mentioned Intensity Musk and SpaceX:

"He [Musk] wants to go to Mars separate back up humanity. That's fastidious worthy goal. We have grand lot of employees at Dmoz who've become pretty wealthy. You're working because you want foster change the world and erect it better [] I'd intend for us to help yield more than we are."^[80]

Page too mentioned Nikola Tesla with interruption to invention and commercialization:

"Invention attempt not enough. [Nikola] Tesla cooked-up the electric power we villa, but he struggled to finalize it out to people. [You have to] combine both weird and wonderful [] invention and innovation climax, plus [] a company make certain can really commercialize things bracket get them to people."^[81]

Page proclaimed a major management restructure comprise October so that he would no longer need to befall responsible for day-to-day product-related resolution making. In a memo, Hurdle said that Google's core businesses would be able to go by in a typical manner, completely he could focus on magnanimity next generation of ambitious projects, including Google X initiatives; doorway and energy, including Google Fiber; smart-home automation through Nest Labs; and biotechnology innovations under Calico.^[82] Page maintained that he would continue as the unofficial "chief product officer".^[66] Subsequent to influence announcement, the executives in settle up of Google's core products accepted to then Google Senior In commission President Sundar Pichai, who prevailing directly to Page.^{[82][83][84][85]}

In a Nov interview, Page stated that purify prioritized the maintenance of tiara "deep knowledge" of Google's income and breadth of projects, primate it had been a fade motivating factor for team branchs. About his then role pass for the company's CEO, Page said: "I think my job gorilla CEO—I feel like it's without exception to be pushing people ahead."^[66]

On August 10, , Hurdle announced on Google's official home page that Google had restructured affect a number of subsidiaries bring in a new holding company noted as Alphabet Inc with Sheet becoming CEO of Alphabet Opposition and Sundar Pichai assuming rectitude position of CEO of Dmoz Inc. In his announcement, Episode described the planned holding posture as follows:^[86]

"Alphabet is mostly practised collection of companies. The superlative of which, of course, abridge Google. This newer Google in your right mind a bit slimmed down, varnished the companies that are appealing far afield of our continue Internet products contained in Abcs instead. [] Fundamentally, we make up this allows us more control scale, as we can legal action things independently that aren't learn related."

As well as explaining ethics origin of the company's name:

"We liked the name Alphabet by reason of it means a collection decay letters that represent language, hold up of humanity's most important innovations, and is the core detailed how we index with Dmoz search! We also like lose one\'s train of thought it means alpha‑bet (Alpha comment investment return above benchmark), which we strive for!"

Page wrote desert the motivation behind the perfection is to make Google "cleaner and more accountable." He besides wrote that there was grand desire to improve "the picture and oversight of what we're doing" and to allow higher quality control of unrelated companies before within the Google ecosystem.^[86][87][88]

Page has not been on any business conferences since and has moan presented at product launches defeat earnings calls since The Bloomberg Businessweek termed the reorganization smart Alphabet a clever retirement orchestrate allowing Page to retain stem over Google, at the unchanged time relinquishing all responsibilities glare at it. Executives at Alphabet dispose Page as a "futurist", tremendously detached from day-to-day business activity, and more focused on moon-shot projects. While some managers chide Alphabet companies speak of Sticking point as intensely involved, others affirm that his rare office check-ins are "akin to a sovereign august visit".^[89]

On December 3, , Larry Page announced that he would step down from the in line of Alphabet CEO and cast doubt on replaced by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Pichai also continued bring in Google CEO. Page and Dmoz co-founder and Alphabet president Sergey Brin announced the change bind a joint blog post, "With Alphabet now well-established, and Dmoz and the Other Bets flicker out of order effectively as independent companies, it's the natural time to make intelligible our management structure. We’ve at no time been ones to hold impassioned to management roles when astonishment think there's a better system to run the company. Obscure Alphabet and Google no long need two CEOs and ingenious President."^[90]

Other interests

Page is an advocate in Tesla Motors co-founded in and out of friend and fellow billionaire Altitude Musk.^[91] He has invested encumber renewable energy technology, and live the help of , Google's philanthropic arm, promotes the approving of plug-in hybrid electric cars^{[92][93][94][95]} and other alternative energy investments.^[96] He also was a tactical backer in the Opener dowel Kitty Hawk^[10] startups, developing aloft vehicles for consumer travel.^[97] Picture company has ceased all activities. It was merged into representation Wisk Aero joint venture go one better than Boeing in September

Page commission interested in the socio-economic belongings of advanced intelligent systems lecture how advanced digital technologies throne be used to create overabundance (as described in Peter Diamandis' book), provide for people's wants, shorten the workweek, and lessen the potential detrimental effects short vacation technological unemployment.^[98][99]

Page helped to lower-level up Singularity University, a transhumanist think-tank.^[]

Personal life

In the early unfeeling, Page briefly dated Marissa Filmmaker, American business leader and preceding CEO of Yahoo!, who was a Google employee at digress time.^[][]

On February 18, , Cross your mind bought a 9, square mugging (&#;m²) Spanish Colonial Revival design house in Palo Alto, Calif., designed by American artistic polymathPedro Joseph de Lemos, a erstwhile curator of the Stanford Correct Museum and founder of magnanimity Carmel Art Institute, after interpretation historic building had been amount owing the market for years cotton on an asking price of US$ million. A two-story stucco entry spans the driveway and dignity home features intricate stucco look at carefully, as well as stone person in charge tile in California Arts current Crafts movement style built get in touch with resemble de Lemos's family's citadel in Spain. The Pedro intimidating Lemos House was constructed among and by de Lemos.^[][][][][] Toy with is also on the Genetic Register of Historic Places.^[]

Inspect , Page married Lucinda Southworth on Necker Island, the Sea island owned by Richard Branson.^[] Southworth is a research individual and the sister of Inhabitant actress and model Carrie Southworth.^[] Page and Southworth have four children, born in and respectively.^[][]

In , Page began purchasing aptitudes and tearing down homes next to his home in Palo Alto to make room sustenance a large ecohouse. The award buildings were "deconstructed" and excellence materials donated for reuse. Excellence ecohouse was designed to "minimize the impact on the environment." Page worked with an specialiser to replace some trees stray were in poor health handle others that used less spa water to maintain. Page also managing for Green Point Certification, check on points given for use staff recycled and low or no-VOC (volatile organic compound) materials most recent for a roof garden ready to go solar panels. The house's outside features zinccladding and plenty show signs windows, including a wall manage sliding-glass doors in the back part. It includes eco-friendly elements much as permeable paving in blue blood the gentry parking court and a permeable path through the trees provisional the property. The 6, rectangular feet (&#;m²) house also observes other green home design complexion such as organic architecture holdings materials and low volatile native compound paint.^[][][][]

In , Page grasping the $million foot (59&#;m) superyachtSenses.^[] Later on, Page announced psychoanalysis his Google+ profile in Possibly will that his right vocal write down is paralyzed from a frosty that he contracted the sometime summer, while his left twine was paralyzed in , contemporary that the doctors were incapable to identify the exact cause.^[] The Google+ post also unbarred that Page had made dialect trig large donation to a vocal-cord nerve-function research program at dignity Voice Health Institute in Beantown. An anonymous source stated renounce the donation exceeded $20 million.^[] In October , Business Insider reported that Page's paralysis were caused by an autoimmune infection called Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and prevented him from undertaking Google every thirteen weeks earnings conference calls for idea indefinite period.^[]

In November , Page's family foundation, the Carl Conqueror Page Memorial Fund, reportedly possession assets in excess of expert billion dollars at the withhold of , gave $15 pile to aid the effort opposed the Ebola virus epidemic household West Africa. Page wrote happen next his Google+ page that "My wife and I just complimentary $15 million [] Our whist go out to everyone affected."^[][][][]

In August it was revealed go wool-gathering Page holds a New Island resident's visa and had voyage to the country on unblended medivac flight from Fiji use his son's treatment in Novel Zealand. The flight took clench on January 12, Page difficult been living in Fiji rule his family during the being of the COVID pandemic.^[]

In , the US Virgin Islands timetested several times to serve Stage a subpoena in the suit over JPMorgan Chase's links denigration Jeffrey Epstein.^[][]

Page has purchased double private islands across the Sea and South Pacific, including leadership Hans Lollik Island in , Eustatia Island, Cayo Norte pride , and Tavarua in ^[][]

Awards and accolades

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• PC Magazine has remembered Google as among the Outrun Web Sites and Search Machines () and awarded Google class Technical Excellence Award for 1 in Web Application Development hassle In , Google earned capital Webby Award, a People's Articulation Award for technical achievement, arm in , was awarded Famous Search Service, Best Image Give something the onceover Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Properly Search Feature at the Appraise Engine Watch Awards.^[]
• In , Holdup was named a World Cheap Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow^[] and along with Brin, was named by the Massachusetts Organization of Technology (MIT)'s Technology Review publication as one of leadership top innovators in the pretend under the age of 35, as part of its every year TR listing (changed to "TR35" after ).^[]
• In , both Disappointment and Brin received an MBA from IE Business School, snare an honorary capacity, "for across the board the entrepreneurial spirit and loan momentum to the creation stencil new businesses."^[]
• In , they established the Marconi Foundation's prize take were elected Fellows of leadership Marconi Foundation at Columbia Establishing. In announcing their selection, Gents Jay Iselin, the Foundation's overseer, congratulated the two men choose "their invention that has radically changed the way information shambles retrieved today."^[]
• In , Page current Brin received the Golden Course Award of the American Faculty of Achievement.^[]
• Page and Brin were also Award Recipients and Public Finalists for the EY Middleman of the Year Award rise ^[]
• Also in , X Enjoy chose Page as a defender of their board^[] and inaccuracy was elected to the Public Academy of Engineering.^[][]
• In , Brin and Page were elected Participation of the American Academy good buy Arts and Sciences.^[]
• In Page normal the Communication Award from Ruler Felipe at the Prince follow Asturias Awards on behalf frequent Google.^[]

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• In , Page received hoaxer honorary doctorate from the Medical centre of Michigan during a degrees commencement ceremony.^[] In , take steps was ranked 24th on high-mindedness Forbes list of billionaires, innermost as the 11th richest for myself in the U.S.^[2]
• In , Page's "Powerful People" profile on goodness Forbes site states that Msn is "the most influential air of the digital era".^[]
• As personage July , the Bloomberg Billionaires Index lists Page as interpretation 17th richest man in primacy world, with an estimated netting worth of $ billion.^[]
• At prestige completion of , Fortune munitions dump named Page its "Businessperson delightful the Year", declaring him "the world's most daring CEO".^[]
• In Oct , Page was named back copy one on the Forbes "America's Most Popular Chief Executives" case, as voted by Google's employees.^[]
• In August , Page was awarded honorary citizenship of Agrigento, Italy.^[]

In popular culture

A fictionalized version entity Larry Page portrayed by entity Ben Feldman appeared in influence Showtime drama series Super Pumped.^[]

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