Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-born American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. Today, Brin serves as President of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc. According to Forbes List February 2016, he is jointly one of three people listed as 11th richest in the world (21 overall), with a net worth of US$39.2 billion.
Brin immigrated to the United States with his family from the Soviet Union at the age of 6. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Maryland, following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, as well as computer science. After graduation, he moved to Stanford University to acquire a PhD in computer science. There he met Page, with whom he later became friends. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin's data mining system to build a web search engine. The program became popular at Stanford and they suspended their PhD studies to start up Google in a rented garage.
The Economist referred to Brin as an "Enlightenment Man", and as someone who believes that "knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance", a philosophy that is summed up by Google's mission statement, "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," and unofficial motto, "Don't be evil".
| Born |
August 21, 1973 (age 42)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Residence |
Los Altos, California, U.S. |
| Nationality |
American |
| Citizenship |
American
Soviet (1973–79, automatically) |
| Alma mater |
University of Maryland (B.S. 1993)
Stanford University (M.S. 1995), (on leave from PhD) |
| Known for |
Co-founder of Google
Directing Google X |
| Net worth |
 US$37.1 billion (April 2016) |
| Spouse(s) |
Anne Wojcicki (2007–15; d.) |
| Children |
2 |