Sergey Brin was born in Moscow in 1973 and moved to the United States with his family in 1979. He earned degrees in computer science and mathematics from the University of Maryland and entered Stanford's graduate program, where he met Larry Page. The pair developed a search technology that ranked pages using incoming links and worked on it from a dormitory room. Brin left Stanford's doctorate program after earning a master's in 1995, raised early financing with Page, named the engine Google, formed Google Inc., and became the company's president of technology as usage and funding expanded prior to the 2004 IPO.
Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who created, along with Larry Page, the online search engine Google, one of the most successful sites on the Internet. Brin's family moved from Moscow to the United States in 1979. After receiving degrees (1993) in computer science and mathematics at the University of Maryland, he entered Stanford University's graduate program, where he met Page, a fellow graduate student.
Brin received a master's degree in 1995, but he went on leave from Stanford's doctorate program to continue working on the search engine. In mid-1998 Brin and Page began receiving outside financing, and they ultimately raised about $1 million from investors and from family and friends. They called their updated search engine Googlea name derived from a misspelling of the originally planned name, googol (a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros)and created the corporation Google Inc.
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