Sergey Brin is a Russian-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of the co-founders of Google along with Larry Page. Brin is also the president of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Brin has been awarded numerous honors, including the Marconi Prize, the ACM Grace Hopper Award, and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
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- Co-founder and former CEO of Google
Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded Google in 1998 while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company’s mission is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Google is now the world’s largest search engine and one of the most valuable companies in the world. Brin served as CEO of Google from 1998 to 2001, and then as president of products until 2015.
- President of Alphabet Inc.
In 2015, Google reorganized itself as a holding company called Alphabet Inc. Brin became president of Alphabet, which oversees Google and a number of other companies, including YouTube, Android, and Waymo.
- Computer scientist and internet entrepreneur
Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He has made significant contributions to the field of computer science, including the development of the PageRank algorithm, which is used by Google to rank websites. Brin is also a successful entrepreneur, and he has helped to build one of the most successful companies in the world.