LAWRENCE LARRY PAGE

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

Introduction
BORN ON : March 26, 1973 (age 38),East Lansing, Michigan,U.S RESIDENCE : Palo Alto, California, U.S.

NATIONALITY : American
OCCUPATION: CEO Of Google

KNOWN FOR: Co-founder Of Google , Inc.

NET WORTH: US$16.7 billion (2011)

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

Born in East Lansing, Michigan Father-Carl Page Both the parents were computer science professionals at Michigan State University Was raised without a religion Schooling-Okemos Montessori School , Okemos, Michigan (1975 to 1979)

EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

Graduation:East Lansing High School(1991) Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University of Michigan with honors and a Master of Science in compute science from Stanford University. Created an Inkjet Printer in college The president of the Eta Kappa Nu in Fall 1994 Member of the 1993 "Maize & Blue" University of Michigan Solar team.

Factors Motivating the Entrepreneur

The profession of his parents Attraction to computers.

First kid in his elementary school to use word processor.

His older brother ,who taught him to take things apart, and before long he was taking "everything in his house apart to see how it worked".

Factors Motivating the Entrepreneur

Determination to invent Developing interest in technology and business From 12, he knew he was going to start a company eventually.

Idea Generation
Larry Page considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, During his PH.D in computer science His supervisor Terry Wino grad encouraged him to pursue this idea Page then focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page The idea's complexity and scale lured Sergey Brin(A fellow Stanford PH.D Student) to the job.

Idea generation
Page and Brin began working together on the project to devise a method to count and qualify each backlink on the Web At the time the Web comprised an estimated 10 million documents, with an untold number of links between them Flaws in existing search engines. Page began building out his crawler

Innovation-Page Rank
A PageRank results from a mathematical algorithm. Developed at Stanford University by Larry Page and Brin. PageRank is a probability distribution. Hierarchy by "link popularity. Linking according to Relevance

Evolution Of Google
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "Backrub. Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol.

Originally, Google ran under the Stanford University website, with the domain google.stanford.edu.
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997,and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998.

It was based in a friend's Susan Wojcicki garage in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.

GOOGLE S MISSION
Their stated mission was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." To satisfy the needs of the individual and the customers we serve . To develop long term client relationship and serve as a trusted partner To help client in making confident decisions and to reduce uncertainties . To understand customer needs , expectations , objectives , and even anxieties to help give you peace of mind .

Funding of Google
The first funding for Google was an August 1998 contribution of US$100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given before Google was even incorporated. Early in 1999, Both Brin and Page decided that the search engine they had developed was taking up too much of their time from academic pursuits. They went to Excite CEO George Bell and offered to sell it to him for $1 million.

On June 7, 1999, a $25 million round of funding was announced,with major investors including the venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital.

Funding Of Google

Google's initial public offering (IPO) took place five years later on August 19, 2004. The company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share Shares were sold in a unique online auction format using a system built by Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. The sale of $1.67 billion gave Google a market capitalization of more than $23 billion. The vast majority of the 271 million shares remained under the control of Google, and many Google employees became instant paper millionaires. Yahoo!, a competitor of Google, also benefited because it owned 8.4 million shares of Google before the IPO took place.

Achievements of Larry page and Brin

Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world, processes over one billion search requests and twenty petabytes of user-generated data every day. SIX GREATEST SUCCESS OF GOOGLE Search Engine ( lets Google it ) Gmail Google Chrome Browser Android Google Maps ( GPS Navigator ) Gesture Search

Achievements of Larry page & Brin

Larry Page is the co-founder and president of products of Google Inc. His fortune is estimated at $16.6 billion, making him the 26th richest person on earth according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires on 2007. In 2002 World Economic Forum named him Global Leader for Tomorrow. Together with Googles co-founder Sergey Brin, Larry was honored with the Marconi Prize in 2004. In 2007, he was cited by PC World as #1 on the list of the 50 Most Important People on the Web.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Technical Excellence Award, for Innovation in Web Application Development in 1999. In 2000, Google earned a Webby Award, a People's Voice Award for technical achievement In 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards. In 2002, Page, along with Sergey Brin, was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100, as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

In 2003 received an honorary MBA from IE Business School In 2004, they received the Marconi Foundation Prize, the "Highest Award in Engineering," Were elected Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2002 the World Economic Forum named Page a Global Leader for Tomorrow In 2004 the X PRIZE chose Page as a trustee for their board.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

In 2004, Page and Brin were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight Page received an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan in 2009 In 2011, he was ranked 24th on the Forbes list of the worlds billionaires The 11th richest person in the United States.

INTERESTS
Page is an active investor in alternative energy companies, such as Tesla Motors, which developed the Tesla Roadster, a 244-mile (393 km) range battery electric vehicle. With the help of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, promotes the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments. Brin and Page are the executive producers of the 2007 film Broken Arrows