Larry Page Siblings: Meet Carl Victor Page Jr.
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Larry Page is a renowned American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and businessman, best known as the co-founder of Google alongside Sergey Brin.
Born on March 26, 1973, in Lansing, Michigan, he grew up in an intellectually stimulating environment shaped by his parents’ careers in computer science and programming.
His father, Carl Victor Page Sr., was a professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at Michigan State University, while his mother, Gloria Page, taught computer programming.
Siblings
Larry has an older brother named Carl Victor Page Jr.
Carl Jr. went on to become a successful internet entrepreneur himself, founding eGroups, an email discussion and mailing list service that he sold to Yahoo! for a substantial sum in 2000.
This experience in Silicon Valley later provided valuable insights and support during the early days of Google’s development.
Career
Page’s career trajectory began during his graduate studies in computer science at Stanford University, where he met Sergey Brin.
Together, they developed the PageRank algorithm, which revolutionized web search by ranking pages based on their link structures rather than simple keyword matches.
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This innovation formed the foundation of Google, which the pair launched in 1998 from a garage in Menlo Park, California.
Page served as Google’s first CEO from 1998 to 2001, then as president of products, guiding the company’s explosive growth into a dominant search engine and expanding into services like Gmail, Google Maps, Android, and YouTube.
In 2011, he returned as CEO of Google, and in 2015, he became CEO of Alphabet Inc., Google’s newly formed parent company, overseeing ambitious “moonshot” projects through ventures like Waymo (autonomous vehicles) and Verily (life sciences).
He stepped down from day-to-day executive roles in 2019 but remains involved as a board member and advisor, focusing on long-term technological advancements.
Accolades
Along with Sergey Brin, Page received the prestigious Marconi Prize in 2004 for co-creating the PageRank algorithm, honoring its transformative impact on communications and information retrieval.
That same year, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for advancements in information technology.
Earlier recognitions include being named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2002 and one of MIT’s Technology Review’s top 100 young innovators (TR100) under 35.
He and Brin have also been honored with awards such as the Webby Award for technical achievement and various Search Engine Watch honors for Google’s innovations.
Page has received honorary degrees, including an MBA from IE Business School and a doctorate from the University of Michigan, where he delivered a commencement address in 2009.