Tech

Larry Page

Raised in a house full of computers by two programming teachers; the ranking idea arrived in a dream.

Born: 1973 · Lansing, Michigan, US
Roots: White American; Jewish mother
Family: Middle class; His father was a computer-science professor and AI pioneer, his mother taught programming; he credits his Montessori schooling with his independence.
Education: University of Michigan → Stanford (PhD program, on leave)
Started with: A house of computers; He says he turned in his school's first word-processed assignment; taking things apart was encouraged.
Affiliations & societies: None documented.; Information only — claims like these are often unverifiable and may be wrong.

The pathway

1996 · age 23
The dream
Wakes at 23 wondering if he could download the whole web and keep just the links — he wrote it down, by his commencement-speech telling.
1996 · age 23
BackRub with Brin
PageRank turns citations into search ranking.
1998 · age 25
Google$100K
Incorporated in a Menlo Park garage.
2001 · age 28
Hands the CEO seat to Schmidt
"Adult supervision" — he takes it back a decade later.
2015 · age 42
Alphabet
Restructures Google under a holding company and moves to moonshots.
2019 · age 46
Steps back
Remains a controlling shareholder; funds flying-car and ocean projects.

Sources

Compiled from these references and contemporaneous press reporting. Figures are approximate; verify before relying on them.