Sergey Brin is the brains behind Google, along with Larry Page. Here are some interesting stories about the actions of this immigrant man, as we extract from various sources.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin was born in Moscow, Russia on August 21, 1973. The first five years of his life were spent in a three-bedroom apartment with his parents and grandmother.
In 1979 when Brin was 6 years old, his parents immigrated to the United States. Because, his father felt his career as a scientist was limited in Russia because he was a Jew.
They decided to stay in the Marland area. It was in Uncle Sam's land that Brin grew up and knitted his dream. Moreover, he is fully supported by his parents who are familiar with educational traditions.
In the United States, his father got a job as a mathematics lecturer at the University of Maryland. And his mother became a researcher at NASA.
In his new country, Sergey Brin began to study. Since childhood, Brin has been known as a smart boy by his teacher. He especially stood out in the field of mathematics.
Since childhood, his father had taught him mathematics and computer programming. Brin was grateful to be able to move to the United States and get a better life than in Russia.
"I know the tough times my parents went through, and I'm so grateful to be brought to the United States," he once said. "Growing up, I always believed I would be the best at math and that gave me a lot of confidence," he said.
Brin graduated from Maryland University in computer science in 1993. Then, he took his PhD at one of the most prestigious universities, Stanford University. During freshman orientation at Stanford University, Brin met Larry Page for the first time. The beginning of their meeting did not go smoothly.
But after much discussion and spending time together, they found a match and instead became close friends. They also got Google's idea from the results of intense discussions.
They also worked together to create an online search engine that displays a large number of results from various sites. Therefore, they want to name it as Googol which means the number one followed by a hundred zeros, as a symbol of searching very much.
However, when they registered the project with investors, an error occurred. An investor invests in a Google company, not Googol. Apparently he said it wrong.
However, Page and Brin found the name Google more attractive. So they even use that name for the next.
Google has now become the most popular search engine company in the world with billions of dollars in revenue. Sergey Brin also entered the list of the world's richest people with assets of around USD 90 billion.
But Brin admitted that he was still trying to save money even though he had a lot of money. Lessons he received from his parents. "From my parents, I learned to be frugal. I still consider prices. But I always try to force myself not to be too frugal," he said.
Sergey Brin married Anne Wojcicki in the Bahamas. Their wedding ceremony which also took place at the same time as Lary Page took place in May 2007.
But they divorced in 2015. In 2018, Sergey Brin remarried to Nicole Shanahan. But earlier this year, Sergey filed for divorce, one of which was related to an alleged affair with Elon Musk.