Google co-founder Sergey Brin is the 7th richest person in the world as of 2022, according to Forbes. He co-founded Google along with Larry Page and was also the president of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., till 3rd December 2019. As of  2022, Brin is the 7th Richest person in the world.

Early Life

Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, Russia, in the Soviet Union. His parents were Jewish and both graduated from Moscow State University. ..

When Sergey Brin was six years old, his family immigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States. ..

Education

Brin studied at the elementary school named Paint Branch Montessori School in Adelphi, Maryland. After studying at home for some years, he got admission to Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt, Maryland.

In 1993, Sergey Brin completed his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Mathematics following his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps from the University of Maryland. At that time, he was only 19 years old. His strong interest in Computer Science is the primary reason for the high net worth of Sergey Brin today.

After graduating from college, he enrolled in a Ph.D. program in computer science from Stanford University. At this time of his academic life, he met Page, and both of them worked together on building a web search engine. Their web search engine program became quite popular at Stanford University, and soon they dropped off their Ph.D. studies to start working on Google in Susan Wojcicki’s garage. Because of founding Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s net worth have enlisted them among the top 10 wealthiest people of the world. ..

Career

In the early days of their friendship, Brin and Page disagreed on most subjects. But over time their conflicts turned into a close friendship, and they became intellectual soul-mates. Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm together, and then realized that this algorithm could be used for building a search engine that would be far bigger than the existing ones.

In 1996, Google released the initial version of Google on the Stanford website. Page was also the president of Alphabet Inc., which was the parent company of Google. Page is still a co-founder and board member of Alphabet, controlling shareholder, and employee. The net worth of Google’s founder Page is higher than that of Brin because he holds more shares in the company.

Love Life

In August 2013, it was announced that Sergey Brin and his wife got separated because of Brin’s extramarital affair with Amanda Rosenberg, the marketing director of Google Glass. After 2 years, in June 2015, Brin and Wojcicki got divorced.

In the year 2018, Brin married a legal tech founder, Nicole Shanahan. They have a daughter, born in the same year.

Assets

Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, has a net worth of $18 billion. He is also the richest man in Silicon Valley. His assets include a stake in Google, an estimated $12 billion in cash and investments, and a home in Mountain View, California.

In 2008, Sergey Brin bought a 3500 square feet penthouse in New York City’s West Village for $8.5 million. ..

Larry Page and Sergey Brin own a customized Boeing 767-200, which has 50 passengers sitting and two staterooms with connecting bathrooms, showers, and dinner areas. They also own an estate in an area of Los Altos Hills, California that is still not disclosed. Sergey Brin lives at this address.

In 2011, Google’s Brin acquired a 73-meter yacht called Dragonfly and spent $80 million for it. In 2014, Page and Brin built a private airport in San Jose worth $82 million.

After the divorce, Brin and Wojcicki are still running The Brin Wojcicki Foundation jointly. They have given $1 million to support the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and also donated extensively to The Michael J. Fox Foundation.

Brin is a donor of Democratic Party organizations and candidates. He has given $30,800 to the DNC and $5,000 to Barack Obama’s reelection campaign.

Highlights

  1. Sergey Brin is the co-founder of Google, one of the world’s most popular search engines.
  2. He also founded YouTube, a video sharing website that has become one of the world’s most popular online platforms.
  3. He is also a co-founder of Google Capital, which helps to invest in technology startups.

In November 2009, Forbes declared Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page the fifth most powerful people in the world. In 2004, Brin and Page received the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award at a ceremony that occurred in Chicago, Illinois. In October 2018, Brin was the 13th-richest person in the world, and the estimated net worth of Sergey Brin back then was US$50.5 billion according to Forbes. ..

Amazing Quotes by Sergey Brin

We do a lot of stuff. The only way you are going to have success is to have a lot of failures first.

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Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, has a net worth of 107 billion USD as of 2022. This is all because of his work on the company’s founding and subsequent success. He has been influential in many ways and is known for his work in computer science.