
Larry Page
Photo: Marcin Mycielski, European Parliament (Stansfield), CC BY-SA 4.0
Born1973-03-26
Occupationcomputer scientist, engineer, entrepreneur
EmployerGoogle
Positionboard of directors member, chief executive officer
EducationEast Lansing High School, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Stanford University, University of Michigan
AwardsComputer Pioneer Award, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Financial Times Person of the Year, Marconi Prize, Seoul Test of Time Award
Highlights
“If you type Stanford, you get sort of random pages that mention Stanford. This obviously wasn’t going to work.”
tech.yahoo.com2025-12-22Source“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google,”
tech.yahoo.com2025-12-22Source“Search engines didn’t really understand the notion of which pages were more important,”
tech.yahoo.com2025-12-22Source“to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
achievement.org2016-07-19Source“In tech, we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society and what is the effect on people, without having to deploy them in the whole world,”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source“I think money is more important to them than having any collaboration.”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source“We should be building great things that don’t exist. Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source“We certainly struggle with people like Microsoft.”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source“the pace of change is increasing”
theverge.com2013-05-15Source“And that’s good, we don’t want to change the world. But maybe we can set aside a part of the world.”
theverge.com2013-05-15Source“There are many exciting things you could do that are illegal or not allowed by regulation,”
theverge.com2013-05-15Source“In some sense, I feel like music training led to the high-speed legacy of Google for me”
en.wikipedia.orgSource“from a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became interested in technology and business. Probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually.”
en.wikipedia.orgSource“In music, you're very cognizant of time. Time is like the primary thing”
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“If you type Stanford, you get sort of random pages that mention Stanford. This obviously wasn’t going to work.”
tech.yahoo.com2025-12-22Source“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google,”
tech.yahoo.com2025-12-22Source“Search engines didn’t really understand the notion of which pages were more important,”
tech.yahoo.com2025-12-22Source“to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
achievement.org2016-07-19Source“In tech, we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society and what is the effect on people, without having to deploy them in the whole world,”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source“I think money is more important to them than having any collaboration.”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source“We should be building great things that don’t exist. Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source“We certainly struggle with people like Microsoft.”
archive.nytimes.com2013-05-15Source“the pace of change is increasing”
theverge.com2013-05-15Source“And that’s good, we don’t want to change the world. But maybe we can set aside a part of the world.”
theverge.com2013-05-15Source“There are many exciting things you could do that are illegal or not allowed by regulation,”
theverge.com2013-05-15Source“In some sense, I feel like music training led to the high-speed legacy of Google for me”
en.wikipedia.orgSource“from a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became interested in technology and business. Probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually.”
en.wikipedia.orgSource“In music, you're very cognizant of time. Time is like the primary thing”
en.wikipedia.orgSource“We’re nowhere near doing that now,”
tech.yahoo.com2025-12-22Source“We haven’t seen them in any all hands for ages as far as I remember.”
vox.com2019-12-03Source“some safe places where we can try things and not have to deploy to the entire world.”
theverge.com2013-05-15Source“we haven’t adapted systems to deal with that.”
theverge.com2013-05-15Source“If you think about it from a music point of view, if you're a percussionist, you hit something, it's got to happen in milliseconds, fractions of a second”
en.wikipedia.orgSourceIn the News
- Larry Page, Sergey Brin invest $225 million in Miami real estate as billionaires flee California's tax - BusinessTodaybusinesstoday.in · 2026-07-23
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin splash $225 million in Miami property as billionaires ...fortune.com · 2026-07-22
- Google co-founder Larry Page crosses $300 billion net worth as Alphabet stock surges - Peopleeuropesays.com · 2026-07-16
- Quote of the day by former Google CEO Larry Page: "If you're not doing some things that are crazy, then…" - unconventional lesson on innovation, ambition and why the biggest ideas often sound impossible at first | - The Times of Indiatimesofindia.indiatimes.com · 2026-07-16
- How Warren Buffett's 'I made a mistake' remark helped Google co-founder Larry Page's net worth cross $300 billion - The Economic Timeseconomictimes.indiatimes.com · 2026-07-16
- Larry Page — Co-Founder, Director & CEO at Google | Comparablycomparably.com · 2026-06-04
- Why is Google co-founder Larry Page ditching California for Delaware? - US News | The Financial Expressfinancialexpress.com · 2026-01-08
- Google cofounder Larry Page leaves California, the state that has been his home for years, with family: Here's what filing reveals - The Times of Indiatimesofindia.indiatimes.com · 2026-01-07
- Larry Page is officially moving business out of California ahead of a proposed billionaire's tax | Business Insider Africaafrica.businessinsider.com · 2026-01-06
- Google cofounder Larry Page overtakes Jeff Bezos as the third richest person in the world following an Alphabet stock surge | Fortunefortune.com · 2025-11-21
- Google cofounder Larry Page's career Advice: Embrace technology to be more lazy - The Times of Indiatimesofindia.indiatimes.com · 2025-08-31
- Larry Page on the improbable dream that became Waymofastcompany.com · 2025-03-21
- Inside Larry Page's Secret New Aviation Startup Dynatomics - Business Insiderbusinessinsider.com · 2025-03-12
- Larry Page and Dynatomics: An AI Revolution in Manufacturingactu.ai · 2025-03-07
- Here Are All the Private Islands That Google Cofounder Larry Page Owns - Business Insiderbusinessinsider.com · 2022-12-16
- Google’s Larry Page gave $400 million in Christmas donations. Not a penny went straight to charity. | Voxvox.com · 2019-12-18
- Alphabet CEO Larry Page steps down, replaced by Google CEO Sundar Pichai | Voxvox.com · 2019-12-03
- Larry Page steps down as CEO, Sundar Pichai to run Google and Alphabeteu.pekintimes.com · 2019-12-03
- A letter from Larry and Sergeyblog.google · 2019-12-03
- Larry Page is quietly amassing a ‘flying car’ empire | The Vergetheverge.com · 2018-07-19
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