Larry Page
Larry Page is the founding partner of Google and is the current Google Inc president of products.
Larry Page was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1973 to Gloria Page and Carl Vincent Page, both of whom are IT educators at Michigan University. After East Lansing High School, he attended the University of Michigan as a computer engineering major and following his graduation, began his masters at Stanford University, where he met Sergey Brin.
Not the best of friends at first, Larry Page and Brin wrote a paper on The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. To this day, it is still one of the most accessed papers at Stanford.
Later on, they began working on a project that led to the founding of the Google search engine. After failing to sell the idea, they decided to develop a business plan and brought it through an initial investment of about $1 million to form their own business. By September 1998, Google Inc was open for business in Menlo Park, CA. A few office relocations later, it finally settled permanently at Mountain View, California.
As of 2005, Larry Page had a net worth of $12 billion and was the 16th in the Forbes 400 list, as well as the 27th wealthiest man in the world. He is also a board trustee of X PRIZE and was chosen as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.