Sergey Brin
- Net Worth
- $20.3 B As of September 2012
At a Glance
- Cofounder, Director Of Special Projects, Google
- Age: 39
- Source of Wealth: Google, self-made
- Residence: Los Altos, CA
- Country of Citizenship: United States
- Education: Master of Science, Stanford University; Bachelor of Arts / Science, University of Maryland, College Park
- Marital Status: Married
- Children: 2
Forbes Lists
#13 Forbes 400
#13 in United States
#30 Powerful People
Profile:
While Google cofounder Sergey Brin
focuses on futuristic innovations as head of special projects at the
company, a nearly 30% surge in the price of Google stock in the past
year lifted Brin's net worth by $3.6 billion to $20.3 billion. He
recently unveiled Project Glass at the tech giant's Google I/O developer
conference. His presentation, which featured sky divers and BMX bikers,
highlighted the capabilities
of the augmented reality glasses, which will allow a user to do
everything from chat on video to view Google Maps while walking. While
his cofounder and Google CEO, Larry Page, has lost his voice, Brin has
led Google's foray into hardware with both Project Glass and the
company's new Nexus 7 tablet. The son and grandson of mathematicians on
his father's side, Brin emigrated from Russia at age 6. His mother was a
research scientist at NASA. He met cofounder Page in a computer science
Ph.D. program at Stanford and dropped out in 1998 to start Google from a
friend's garage. Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, run the Brin
Wojcicki Foundation, which has donated over $5 million to the
Parkinson's Institute in the last three years. Brin is particularly
interested in funding research for Parkinson's because he has a genetic
mutation that increases the odds that he will contract the disease.
Their Brin Wojcicki Challenge promises to match any proceeds up to $50
million given to The Michael J. Fox Foundation by the end of 2012. As of
August, Brin and Wojcicki have already given $30 million to the Fox
Foundation for this challenge.
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