New Delhi, July 10: Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26, 1973 to a Jewish family in Michigan, USA. His father, Dr. Carl Victor Page, was a professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at Michigan State University, where Lawrence's mother, Gloria, also taught computer programming. He along with Sergey Brin co-founded Google, while they were computer science Ph.D. candidates at Stanford University. The two launched the site in 1998 and Page served as CEO through April 2001 before giving up leadership to Eric Schmidt. Larry Page saw the company reaching the $50 billion revenue mark in 2012. A resident of Palo Alto, California, Page wants to tap the brains of his company to deliver "moon shots" of innovation, saying "If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then you're doing the wrong things." Let's take a look at some interesting facts about Larry Page. His attraction to computers started at age sixAccording to Larry, his house was a mess, with computers and Popular Science magazines all over the place. His attraction to computers started when he was just six years old when he got to "play with the stuff lying around." He became the "first kid in his elementary school to turn in an assignment from a word processor." Larry says he learn from a very early age to invent things which is the reason why he became interested in technology and business. “When I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually," he said in an interview. Graduated from University of MichiganHe holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan with honours and a Masters degree in computer science from Stanford University. While at the University of Michigan, "Page created an inkjet printer made of Lego bricks" (actually a line plotter),served as the president of the HKN in Fall 1994, and was a member of the solar car team.Research project "BackRub”After enrolling for a Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Larry Page considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph. He along with Brin, started work on a research project nicknamed "BackRub" to devise a method for determining the number of Web pages linked to any one given page. At the time Page conceived of BackRub, the Web comprised of an estimated 10 million documents, with an untold number of links between them. Since the resources required to crawl such a huge number of documents were way beyond the usual bounds of a student project, so Page began building out his crawler. Soon, Page found the premise behind BackRub fascinating. To convert the backlink data gathered by BackRub's web crawler into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm, and realized that it could be used to build a search engine far superior to existing ones. In 1996 Google was bornIn August 1996, the initial version of Google was made available, still on the Stanford University Web site. Larry's office was in room 360 of the Gates CS Building, which he shared with several other graduate students, including Sean Anderson, Tamara Munzner, and Lucas Pereira. While picking up a suitable name for the search engine Sean verbally suggested the word "googolplex," and Larry responded verbally with the shortened form, "googol" (both words refer to specific large numbers). Sean was seated at his computer terminal, so he executed a search of the Internet domain name registry database to see if the newly suggested name was still available for registration and use. Sean made the mistake of searching for the name spelled as "google.com," which he found to be available. Larry liked the name, and within hours he took the step of registering the name "google.com" for himself and Sergey (the domain name registration record dates from September 15, 1997).His mission was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible”Page and Brin incorporated Google as a privately held company in 1998 and relocated their servers from Larry Page's dorm room to a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. Having completed their Master's degrees, they took a leave of absence from the Ph.D. program to concentrate on building their business. At first, Larry Page served as the company's CEO, Sergey Brin as its president. Their stated mission was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." After witnessing some growth, the company soon leased a complex of buildings in Mountain View, California in 1999. Google has since purchased the entire property, known as the Googleplex, one of the most unusual and innovative workplaces in the world, replete with exercise and recreational facilities.Taking the role of of President for ProductsBy 2001, a vast number of once-promising Internet start-ups had folded, but Google was growing explosively and turning a profit. Page and Brin recruited Novell executive Eric Schmidt to serve as CEO, with Larry Page taking the role of President for Products, and Sergey Brin as President for Technology. The three have continued to run the enterprise successfully ever since. His annual salary is $1All three top executives -- Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt -- have reduced their annual salaries to a dollar a year and refused bonuses, tying their personal wealth directly to the company's performance in the stock market.Multi-billionaire at 27Google's initial public offering in 2004 raised $1.67 billion, taking the company's market capitalization to $23 billion. It resulted in Larry Page turning a multi-billionaires at age 27. By the end of 2006, Google had over 10,000 employees and annual revenues well over $10 billion.Promotes use of greener energyA resident of Palo Alto, Page is a major proponent of cleaner forms of energy. His network of houses uses new types of fuel cells, geothermal energy and rainwater capture.Rides electric carsHe also rides a Zero X electric dirt bike and an electric sports car from Tesla Motors, in which he and Google co-founder Sergey Brin are investors.An adventure seekerLarry Page is a self-confessed adventure-seeker and likes various outdoor sports, especially Kite Boarding. He also visits Necker Island, Alaska and Sir Richard Branson's private island to indulge in his favorite sport. Page also loves traveling to Alaska in his private jet every time he needs to relax. Larry Page owns a luxurious expedition yacht named “Senses” completed by German boat-makers Schweers. The 193-ft yacht cost him approximately $45 million.
