Illustration: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, entrepreneurs

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Sergey Brin: American computer scientists and internet entrepreneurs, cofounders of Google and Alphabet Inc. Brin was born in Moscow, Page in Michigan. Met at Stanford University when they were studying for PhDs in computer science. They quit their studies in 1998 and founded Google. The search machine they developed is based on finding links between different searches to give users the best results. Google became the website with the most traffic in the world. The pair founded other initiatives, some are secret and technologically groundbreaking. In 2015, they established Alphabet, which became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. Brin is the company’s president and Page is its CEO. Larry Page: American computer scientists and internet entrepreneurs, cofounders of Google and Alphabet Inc. Brin was born in Moscow, Page in Michigan. Met at Stanford University when they were studying for PhDs in computer science. They quit their studies in 1998 and founded Google. The search machine they developed is based on finding links between different searches to give users the best results. Google became the website with the most traffic in the world. The pair founded other initiatives, some are secret and technologically groundbreaking. In 2015, they established Alphabet, which became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries. Brin is the company’s president and Page is its CEO.

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