Russians who changed America: Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin is an American entrepreneur and scientist in the field of computing, information technology and economics. The developer and co-founder of the search engine Google, which is one of the most profitable Internet companies in the world.

His story is told on the site Museum of Russian-American Heritage

“Solving big problems is much easier than solving small problems,” says Sergey Brin.

Brin was born on August 21 1973 in Moscow (Russia, then the Soviet Union) in a Jewish family. His father, Michael Brin, is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland. His mother, Eugenia Brin, is a researcher at the NASA Space Flight Center.

Sergey's father realized that for him, as a Jew, in the Soviet Union, career growth was practically impossible, and the same thing could happen to his son. As a result, in 1979, the family moved to the United States, where Sergey received a bachelor's degree in science and mathematics from the University of Maryland in 1993. After receiving a fellowship from the National Science Foundation, he attended Stanford University to pursue a doctorate in computer science. He later took a sabbatical to begin working with Larry Page on the project that became known throughout the world as Google.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Photo: Google

Bryn met Larry Page at Stanford. They became good friends. They had common interests that led to the creation of a search engine where search results are given according to the popularity of the pages. Page and Bryn checked their observations as part of their research, and laid the foundation for their search engine. They concluded that the pages with the most links to them from other highly sought-after web pages would be most useful for search purposes. For starters, they used their dorm room as a workshop, and the next step was to rent a garage in Menlo Park, California. Brin and Page asked for money and investment from family and friends.

And in 1998, they opened their company. They called the search engine Google because of the mathematical term googol, which means one with one hundred zeros. The name was intended to reflect the scale of their mission, the purpose of which was to find a way to organize a huge amount of information available on the Internet, and thus make it universally accessible and useful everywhere.

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In this case, their achievement is comparable to the invention of a mechanical printing press by Johann Gutenberg in the 1440 year. The “mass” production of previously handwritten books, made possible by Gutenberg’s technology, led to geometric progress in the dissemination of knowledge and access to it, also leading to obsolescence of the then existing type of censorship. Google is currently the #1 Internet search engine in the world, with more than 5,9 billion search queries daily.

Numerous awards reflect the significance of the achievements of Bryn and Paige: they literally changed the world. In 2004, Brin received the Gold Plate Award of the Academy of Achievements, and in the same year, the Marconi Foundation Award, which is the highest award in the field of engineering. In 2009, he was included in the National Academy of Achievements.

As of March 2014, Forbes magazine rated Bryn’s personal fortune at $ 30,1 billion, making him 19 on the list of the richest people in the world. In 2009, the publication placed him and Paget on the 5 position among the most influential people in the world. He is also a member of AmBAR, a group of Russian-speaking business professionals in America.

Together with his ex-wife Anna Wojitski Bryn, he donated hundreds of millions of dollars to solve a wide range of problems - ranging from environmental issues, women's rights, education, human rights, poverty eradication in Northern California, Parkinson's disease research, and ending with certain Jewish programs. Bryn is a big fan of alternative energy consumption and is trying to solve global energy and climate problems through Google charity.

In 2008, Brin transferred $ 4,5 million for a future space flight through Space Adventures.

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