Sergey Brin - Academy of Achievement

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When Page took the company public in 2004, he and Sergey Brin became multi-billionaires overnight. That same year, they joined the select company of Academy of Achievement student delegates who have returned to the International Achievement Summit as honorees of the Academy. Today, Google is the most-used Web search service in the world, conducting more than a billion searches a day, in over 100 languages, and has given the English language a new verb: "to Google." Larry Page and Sergey Brin have transformed the way the world accesses and uses information."/> <link rel="canonical" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sergey-brin/"/> <meta property="og:locale" content="en_US"/> <meta property="og:type" content="article"/> <meta property="og:title" content="Sergey Brin - Academy of Achievement"/> <meta property="og:description" content="<p class="inputTextFirst">If you use the Internet, chances are you use Google every day. 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<div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar clearfix"> <h2 class="serif-3 p-b-1">Co-founder of Google Inc.</h2> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> August 21, 1973 </dd> </div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, Russia in 1973. He immigrated with his family to the United States at the age of six and grew up in Adelphi, Maryland. His father, Michael Brin, was a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland. Like Larry Page, he attended a Montessori school as a small child. He graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in 1990 and entered the University of Maryland, College Park. In only three years, he graduated with highest honors in mathematics and computer science. He entered graduate school at Stanford University with a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_14879" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-14879 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-page_brin-COURTESY-GOOGLE.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-14879 lazyload" alt="Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Courtesy of Google)" width="1600" height="1043" data-sizes="(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-page_brin-COURTESY-GOOGLE.jpg 1600w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-page_brin-COURTESY-GOOGLE-380x248.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-page_brin-COURTESY-GOOGLE-760x495.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-page_brin-COURTESY-GOOGLE.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the domain of Google.com on September 15, 1997. (Courtesy of Google)</figcaption></figure><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Brin soon authored more than a dozen papers on data mining and pattern extraction for leading academic journals, including “Extracting Patterns and Relations from the World Wide Web,” “Scalable Techniques for Mining Casual Structures,” “Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket Data,” and “Beyond Market Baskets: Generalizing Association Rules to Correlations.” He also created a website for film ratings and designed a software application to translate documents from TeX, the text processing language often used for scientific papers, to HTML (hypertext markup language), the code in which Web pages are written.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_22623" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-22623 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-72070527_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-22623 size-full lazyload" alt="The home where Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented the garage 8 years ago to set up Google is seen October 2, 2006 in Menlo Park, California. Reportedly, Google purchased the 1,900 square foot house where they used to rent out the garage from Susan Wojcicki for $1,700 a month. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)" width="2280" height="1510" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-72070527_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-72070527_master-380x252.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-72070527_master-760x503.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-72070527_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">The home where Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented the garage in 1998 to set up Google is seen October 2, 2006, in Menlo Park, California. Reportedly, Google purchased the 1,900 square foot house, where they rented a garage from Susan Wojcicki for $1,700 a month. Larry and Sergey are now worth more than $105 billion.</figcaption></figure><p>At Stanford, Sergey Brin met fellow computer science graduate student Larry Page, who recruited him to join his research project.  <span class="s1">The Internet and the World Wide Web were just taking shape as major forces in telecommunication when Larry Page and Sergey Brin entered Stanford. Page wanted to devise a method for determining how many other Web pages linked to any one given page. Existing facilities for exploring the Web could only rank search results by the frequency of appearance of a given word on any page of the Web. Searches often produced endless lists of websites of very little pertinence to the user’s query. Page soon found that ranking websites by the number of links leading to it from other sites was a far more useful measure of a Web document’s relevance to a user’s search criteria. To explore the possibilities of his new “PageRank” mechanism more fully, he called on the data mining expertise of his classmate, Sergey Brin.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_30489" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30489 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-on-stage-with-two-men.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30489 size-full lazyload" alt="wp-brin-sergey-on-stage-with-two-men" width="2280" height="1532" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-on-stage-with-two-men.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-on-stage-with-two-men-380x255.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-on-stage-with-two-men-760x511.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-on-stage-with-two-men.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">At the 2000 International Achievement Summit in London, Sir David Frost interviews 27-year-old Academy student delegate Sergey Brin and Douglas G. Carlston, Founder of Brøderbund Software, about the future of technology.</figcaption></figure><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Together, Page and Brin wrote the paper “Dynamic Data Mining: A New Architecture for Data with High Dimensionality,” and followed it with “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine.” The latter paper quickly became one of the most downloaded scientific documents in the history of the Internet. For a time, Page and Brin ran the prototype of their search engine, which they named “BackRub,” on an assortment of inexpensive personal computers stored in Larry Page’s dorm room. Word quickly spread beyond the walls of Stanford that the two graduate students had created something far more useful than existing search technology.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_22625" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-22625 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-524130748_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-22625 size-full lazyload" alt="April 08, 2003: Larry Page (L), Co-Founder and President, Products and Sergey Brin, Co-Founder and President, Technology pose inside the server room at Google's campus headquarters in Mountain View. They founded the company in 1998. (Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images)" width="2280" height="1563" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-524130748_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-524130748_master-380x261.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-524130748_master-760x521.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-524130748_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2003: Larry Page, Co-founder and President, Products, and Sergey Brin, Co-founder and President, Technology, pose inside the server room at Google’s campus headquarters in Mountain View, California. (Photo: Getty Images)</figcaption></figure><p class="p1"><span class="s1">They registered the domain name google.com in 1997. The domain name was derived from the term “googol,” the very large number written as a one followed by 100 zeros, an expression of the vast universe of data the Google search engine was designed to explore. 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.”</span></p> <figure id="attachment_4988" style="width: 1894px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-4988 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/brinpage_lg.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-4988 size-full lazyload" alt="Chicago 2004: Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, former Academy student delegates, return as Honorees." width="1894" height="1258" data-sizes="(max-width: 1894px) 100vw, 1894px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/brinpage_lg.jpg 1894w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/brinpage_lg-380x252.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/brinpage_lg-760x505.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/brinpage_lg.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Chicago 2004: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, former Academy student delegates, return as Academy guests of honor.</figcaption></figure><p class="p1"><span class="s1">After quickly outgrowing a series of office locations, the company 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. In 2000, they began selling text-based advertisements associated with search keywords. The text-only ads on their graphics-free home page kept their download time to the bare minimum, and their ability to deliver ads directly related to the interests of the user made the ad space highly valuable.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">That same year, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, still enrolled as Ph.D. candidates at Stanford, attended the Academy of Achievement’s <span class="s2">International Achievement Summit</span> in London, England as graduate student delegates. The <span class="s2">interview</span> recorded at that time can be read on this website. They returned to the 2004 International Achievement Summit in Chicago as recipients of the Academy’s Golden Plate Award.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_41509" style="width: 1360px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-41509 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-chicago_0769_JFR.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-41509 lazyload" alt="" width="1360" height="1360" data-sizes="(max-width: 1360px) 100vw, 1360px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-chicago_0769_JFR.jpg 1360w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-chicago_0769_JFR-190x190.jpg 190w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-chicago_0769_JFR-380x380.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-chicago_0769_JFR-760x760.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wp-chicago_0769_JFR.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2004: Awards Council member and technology entrepreneur Stephen M. Case presents the American Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award to both Larry Page and Sergey Brin at the Civic Opera House in Chicago, Illinois.</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">By 2001, a vast number of once-promising Internet startups 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 as a triumvirate ever since.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_14881" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-14881 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-sergey-brin-larry-page.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-14881 size-full lazyload" alt="Google founders Larry Page (R) and Sergey Brin (L) speak at a press conference announcing Google's launch of a new transit mapping feature of Google Maps with the Metropolitan Transit Authority at Grand Central Station, New York City, in 2008. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Images) " width="2280" height="1520" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-sergey-brin-larry-page.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-sergey-brin-larry-page-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-sergey-brin-larry-page-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-sergey-brin-larry-page.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2008: Google founders Brin and Page speak at a press conference announcing Google’s launch of a new transit mapping feature of Google Maps with the Metropolitan Transit Authority at Grand Central Station, New York City.</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Google’s initial public offering in 2004 raised $1.67 billion, giving the company a market capitalization of $23 billion. A number of Google employees with shares in the company became millionaires overnight, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin found themselves multibillionaires at age 27. Google was an immediate favorite with individual investors and the stock price has soared. All 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.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_23449" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-23449 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_080902061441.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-23449 lazyload" alt="2008: Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page talk during a news conference at Google Inc. headquarters." width="2280" height="1745" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_080902061441.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_080902061441-380x291.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_080902061441-760x582.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_080902061441.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2008: Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page talk during a news conference at Google Inc. headquarters.</figcaption></figure> <p>By the end of 2006, Google had over 10,000 employees and annual revenues well over $10 billion. Various estimates place Larry Page and Sergey Brin among the two dozen richest people on Earth, and the dozen richest Americans. Despite its enormous growth, Google has largely succeeded in preserving a uniquely informal and creative atmosphere at its Mountain View campus. <span class="s1">Google employs a Chief Culture Officer to maintain and develop a creative and collaborative environment. Employees are encouraged to spend 20 percent of their work time on independent projects. As many as half of Google’s new products originated in this Innovation Time Off program. </span><span class="s1">In 2007 and 2008, <i>Fortune</i> magazine, in its annual Top 100, ranked Google as the best company in the world to work for.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_14875" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-14875 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP100708134075.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-14875 lazyload" alt="Google CEO Eric Schmidt, center, and Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page, at the annual Allen & Co. media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, 2010. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)" width="2280" height="1589" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP100708134075.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP100708134075-380x265.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP100708134075-760x530.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP100708134075.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2010: Google CEO Eric Schmidt with Brin and Page, at the annual Allen & Co. media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho.</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">In addition to its in-house product development, Google has also grown through strategic acquisitions of hardware and software companies with innovative video, teleconferencing and social networking products. One of the most dramatic of these was the 2006 purchase of the online video site YouTube for $1.65 billion. Prior to the sale, YouTube’s earnings were negligible, but Google quickly turned it into a profit center.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">The following year, Google acquired the software company DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. DoubleClick technology directs display advertising to users based on their search behavior. DoubleClick complements the formidable arsenal of technologies that Google has deployed to revolutionize online advertising. AdWords places advertising in third-party websites, on a cost-per-click or cost-per-view basis. Google Analytics enables the owners of websites to study the traffic to their sites. AdSense allows these owners to display advertising on their sites; they are then paid by the advertisers on a per-click basis. Today 99 percent of Google’s revenue is derived from advertising. Users also have the option of purchasing Google Site Search, a service that provides access to the Google index without advertising.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_14876" style="width: 2000px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-14876 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-brin-google-glass.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-14876 lazyload" alt="Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google Inc., wearing Project Glass Internet glasses at the Diane Von Furstenberg fashion show in New York City, 2012. (Photographer: Peter Foley/Getty Images)" width="2000" height="1602" data-sizes="(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-brin-google-glass.jpg 2000w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-brin-google-glass-380x304.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-brin-google-glass-760x609.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-brin-google-glass.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2012: Sergey Brin wearing Project Glass Internet glasses at the Diane Von Furstenberg fashion show in New York.</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">In recent years, Google has introduced a number of popular new services and applications, including a toolbar that allows users to perform searches from their desktops, without visiting the Google website. The website itself enables searches for video and still imagery as well as text. Google Maps is a popular navigation tool, while Google Earth allows users to access satellite imagery to zoom in on locations all over the world. The most ambitious project of all, Google Book Search, aims to make the contents of vast libraries of books available and searchable online. Google Books offers free access to books that are already in the public domain, while selling digital versions of new books online.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_23452" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-23452 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_615955114913.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-23452 lazyload" alt="September 25, 2012: Google co-founder Sergey Brin after riding in a driverless car with officials, to a bill signing for driverless cars at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google engineers say they have turned a corner in their pursuit of creating a car that can drive itself. Test cars have been able to navigate freeways comfortably for a few years. On Monday, April 28, 2014, Google said the cars can now negotiate thousands of urban situations that would have stumped them a year or two ago. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)" width="2280" height="1408" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_615955114913.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_615955114913-380x235.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_615955114913-760x469.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_615955114913.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2012: Sergey Brin, after riding in a driverless car, to a bill-signing for driverless cars at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google engineers say they have turned a corner in their pursuit of creating a car that can drive itself. Test cars have been able to navigate freeways comfortably for a few years. In 2014, Google said the cars can now negotiate thousands of urban situations that would have stumped them a year or two ago. (AP)</figcaption></figure><p class="p1">Google also provides a free Web-based email service, Gmail, which offers its users far more storage space than most other services. The company now offers a suite of business tools, including word processing and spreadsheet applications, at a fraction of the cost of competing office software packages. Google has created its own Web browser, Google Chrome, as well as the popular Picasa photo organization and editing software. Other Google applications include: Google Calendar; Google Docs, an online tool for collaborative writing and editing; Google Translate, which can translate documents back and forth between dozens of different languages, and allows users to compare and rate alternative translations. One of the company’s most ubiquitous products is the Android smartphone operating system.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">A philanthropic arm, Google.org, focuses on climate change and global issues of poverty and public heath. The company has run an online poll to select nonprofit initiatives to receive $10 million in Google.org donations. One of Google.org’s principal projects is the development of a 100-mile-a-gallon hybrid automobile. As a company, Google maintains a commitment to environmentally sustainable technology. It has the largest solar power capacity of any corporate campus in the United States, and even the grounds of its green campus are grazed by a flock of goats. Google has negotiated 20-year power contracts with wind farms in Iowa, and in 2010 acquired a 20 percent stake in two wind farms built by NextEra Energy Resources in North Dakota.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_23451" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-23451 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_490853211638.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-23451 size-full lazyload" alt="May 28, 2014: (Freightliner/Rex) The Google self-driving car." width="2280" height="1520" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_490853211638.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_490853211638-380x253.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_490853211638-760x507.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_490853211638.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">May 2014: The Google self-driving car. Larry Page was an honor student at the University of Michigan where he participated in the solar car team, reflecting another lifelong interest: sustainable transportation technology. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, announced in December of 2016 that its autonomous vehicle project was spinning off from its research lab X, and would then operate as a stand-alone company under the name Waymo. Alphabet’s decision “to spin off Waymo is a signal that the company thinks its self-driving technology has now advanced beyond research project status and is ready for commercialization.” Since 2009, the vehicles have logged 2.3 million driverless miles — the equivalent of more than 400 round-trip drives from New York to Los Angeles.</figcaption></figure><p class="p1">Google has consistently supported the principle of “net neutrality” that requires broadband carriers to treat all websites equally, but Google spokesmen caution Internet users against unrealistic expectations of online privacy. The future of the Internet, they maintain, will embody a principle of “true transparency, no anonymity.” Meanwhile, Google seeks the expansion of broadband access. It provides free wireless broadband service throughout the city of Mountain View, and a subsidiary, Google Fiber, is testing wireless broadband in cities across the United States.</p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 1rem;">In 2011</span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">, Google initiated its largest acquisition yet, buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Motorola had been a principal manufacturer of phones running Google’s Android operating system, and the merger gave Google ownership of significant patents in the mobile phone sector. Within two years of closing the deal, Google later sold the company to Lenovo of Japan, while keeping control of the all-important patents. Google continues to make strategic acquisitions of startups in the fields of gaming, virtual reality, online music, image recognition and artificial intelligence.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_14872" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-14872 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp2-Saturday-Evening-Speaker-Brin-078.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-14872 size-full lazyload" alt="Sergey Brin at the 2014 Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in San Francisco, California." width="2280" height="1629" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp2-Saturday-Evening-Speaker-Brin-078.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp2-Saturday-Evening-Speaker-Brin-078-380x272.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp2-Saturday-Evening-Speaker-Brin-078-760x543.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp2-Saturday-Evening-Speaker-Brin-078.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Awards Council member Sergey Brin at the 2014 Banquet of the Golden Plate ceremonies in San Francisco.</figcaption></figure> <p class="p1">The Google Brain Project, initiated in 2011, has used Google’s massive reserves of data and its distributed computer infrastructure to develop a large-scale artificial neural network, capable of interpreting visual, written or auditory data and learning from its own mistakes. Elements of this technology are now used in the speech recognition feature of the Android Operating System.</p> <p>In 2013, the company introduced Google Glass, a hands-free voice-activated computer built into a pair of eyeglasses, with a display projected into the eye and an audio speaker audible only to the wearer.  Google Glass enables the wearer to take pictures, record video, dictate messages, navigate, and access other information without significantly obstructing the natural field of vision. Google made prototypes available on a limited basis through 2015, before withdrawing the product for further experimentation.</p> <figure id="attachment_50970" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-50970 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-942512532.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-50970 lazyload" alt="" width="2280" height="1778" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-942512532.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-942512532-380x296.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-942512532-760x593.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-942512532.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">April 5, 2018: Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (R) is welcomed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin (L) as he visits Silicon Valley in San Francisco, California. (Bandar Algaloud / Saudi Kingdom Council)</figcaption></figure><p>Google reorganized its diverse interests as a holding company, Alphabet Inc., in 2015, with Google as its principal subsidiary. Sergey Brin serves as president of Alphabet, with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt filing the roles of CEO and executive chairman, respectively.</p> <p>Today, Google remains the Internet’s most visited website, employing well over a million servers around the world to process over 3.5 billion search requests every day. In 2016, the company opened a new 11-story office complex on St. Pancras Square in London. As of that year, Google had 70 offices in more than 40 countries, and data centers across the U.S., in Chile, Finland, Ireland, Belgium, Singapore and Taiwan. Sergey Brin’s marriage to biotech analyst and entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki ended in 2015. The couple have one child and continue to operate a charitable foundation together. Sergey Brin lives in Los Altos, California. <span class="s1">As of 2018, his personal fortune exceeded $50 billion.</span></p></body></html> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="profile" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <header class="editorial-article__header"> <figure class="text-xs-center"> <img class="inductee-badge" src="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/themes/aoa/assets/images/inducted-badge@2x.png" alt="Inducted Badge" width="120" height="120"/> <figcaption class="serif-3 text-brand-primary"> Inducted in 2004 </figcaption> </figure> </header> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <dl class="clearfix m-b-0"> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Career</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> <div><a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.entrepreneur">Entrepreneur</a></div> </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> August 21, 1973 </dd> </div> </dl> </aside> <article class="col-md-8 editorial-article clearfix"> <p class="inputTextFirst">If you use the Internet, chances are you use Google every day. The search engine and the enormously successful company that shares its name were the creation of a pair of Stanford University graduate students still in their mid-20s, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.</p> <p class="inputText">It was Larry Page who first hit on the idea of analyzing Internet links to rate their relevance to a given information search. At first Page was only interested in writing a fun and interesting dissertation, but he soon realized his idea had far greater potential. With his classmate Sergey Brin, he presented his work to acclaim at the World Wide Web conference in 1998. Within a year they had raised over $30 million to start a company, Google Inc., providing a free Web search service that can return an ordered list of results in a fraction of a second. The simple white page with the multi-colored logo was an immediate hit with Web surfers around the world. The website generates enormous revenue by providing advertising space linked by content to the results of a given search.</p> <p class="inputText">When Page took the company public in 2004, he and Sergey Brin became multi-billionaires overnight. That same year, they joined the select company of Academy of Achievement student delegates who have returned to the International Achievement Summit as honorees of the Academy. Today, Google is the most-used Web search service in the world, conducting more than a billion searches a day, in over 100 languages, and has given the English language a new verb: “to Google.” Larry Page and Sergey Brin have transformed the way the world accesses and uses information.</p> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="interview" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 interview-feature-video"> <figure> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/E96l4aFTgA4?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=1144&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-Sergey-2000-Upscale-1of1.mov.06_09_08_01.Still001-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-Sergey-2000-Upscale-1of1.mov.06_09_08_01.Still001-760x428.jpg"></div> <div class="video-tag sans-4"> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> <div class="video-tag__text">Watch full interview</div> </div> </div> </figure> </div> <header class="col-md-12 text-xs-center m-b-2"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> </header> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <h2 class="serif-3 achiever--biography-subtitle">Co-founder of Google Inc.</h2> <div class="sans-2">London, England</div> <div class="sans-2">October 28, 2000</div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8">   <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>We’re talking to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google. Sergey Brin, how do you see Google as a company, and what do you hope to accomplish with it?</strong></p> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/SZT22kGbqAY?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=38&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-and-Page-2000-MasterEdit.00_13_41_04.Still004-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-and-Page-2000-MasterEdit.00_13_41_04.Still004-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p class="p1">Sergey Brin:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At Google, our mission is to make the world’s information accessible and useful. And that means all of the world’s information, which now, in our index, numbers over a billion documents, and it’s an incredible resource. In history, you have never had access to just pretty much all of the world’s information in seconds, and we have that now, and to make it really useful, you have to have a good way of finding whatever it is that you want.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That’s precisely what we work on at Google. My hope is to provide instant access to any information anybody ever wants in the future.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_30490" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30490 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-with-Summit-panel-on-stage.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30490 size-full lazyload" alt="wp-brin-sergey-with-summit-panel-on-stage" width="2280" height="1504" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-with-Summit-panel-on-stage.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-with-Summit-panel-on-stage-380x251.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-with-Summit-panel-on-stage-760x501.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-with-Summit-panel-on-stage.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">At the 2000 International Achievement Summit in London, Sir David Frost, moderates a panel of Academy student delegates and Awards Council members, including delegates Sergey Brin (at far left) and Larry Page (at far right).</figcaption></figure><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Certainly, you weren’t the only ones with that objective at the time, but you two did something about it. How do you account for that?</b></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Sergey Brin: That’s true. Certainly anyone can say, “Oh, I want to build a car that is going to cost $5 and go 500 miles an hour,” and that would be great.</span></p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lhgvrc4hav8?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=49&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-and-Page-2000-MasterEdit.00_13_04_06.Still005-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-and-Page-2000-MasterEdit.00_13_04_06.Still005-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>I was fortunate to be at Stanford, and I was really interested in data mining, which means analyzing large amounts of data, discovering patterns and trends. And at the same time, Larry joined Stanford in ’95, and he started downloading the Web, which it turns out to be the most interesting data you can possibly mine. Our joint effort, just looking at the data out of curiosity, we found that we had technology to do a better job of search, and from that initial technology, we got really interested in the problem, and we realized how impactful having great search can be. So we built technology upon technology after that, to bring Google to where it is today, and we continue to develop lots of technology for tomorrow.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_1888" style="width: 1680px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-1888 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/209.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-1888 size-full lazyload" alt="Google co-founder and former Academy of Achievement student delegate Sergey Brin (2nd from R) with UAE youth delegates Reem Almarzouqi, Shamma Al Mazrui, Iman Ben Chaibah, Hafsah Al Habsi and Khalifa Aljaziri." width="1680" height="1344" data-sizes="(max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/209.jpg 1680w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/209-380x304.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/209-760x608.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/209.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2000 Academy delegate Sergey Brin with UAE delegates Reem Almarzouqi, Shamma Al Mazrui, Iman Ben Chaibah, Hafsah Al Habsi and Khalifa Aljaziri at the 2014 International Achievement Summit in San Francisco, California.</figcaption></figure><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Why is it that you perceived the need for Google before anyone else did?</b></span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Larry Page: Well, it’s actually a great argument for pure research because…</span></p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/_163uhpTwMI?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-and-Page-2000-MasterEdit.00_02_44_20.Still008-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-and-Page-2000-MasterEdit.00_02_44_20.Still008-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>We didn’t start out to do a search engine at all. In late 1995, I started collecting the links on the Web, because my advisor and I decided that would be a good thing to do. We didn’t know exactly what I was going to do with it, but it seemed like no one was really looking at the links on the Web — which pages link to which pages. In computer science, there’s a lot of big graphs. Right now, (the Web) has like five billion edges and two billion nodes. So it is a huge graph. I figured I could get a dissertation and do something fun and perhaps practical at the same time, which is really what motivates me.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/1wi9veSf93s?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-and-Page-2000-MasterEdit.00_09_02_10.Still001-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-and-Page-2000-MasterEdit.00_09_02_10.Still001-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>I started off by reversing the links, and then I wanted to find basically, say, who links to the Stanford home page, and there’s 10,000 people who link to Stanford. Then the question is, which ones do you show? So you can only show 10, and we ended up with this way of ranking links, based on the links. Then we were like, “Wow, this is really good. It ranks things in the order you would expect to see them.” Stanford would be first. You can take universities and just rank them, and they come out in the order you’d expect. So we thought, “This is really interesting. This thing really works. We should use it for search.” So I started building a search engine. Sergey also came on very early, probably in late ’95 or early ’96, and was really interested in the data mining part. Basically, we thought, “Oh, we should be able to make a better search engine.”</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Search engines didn’t really understand the notion of which pages were more important. If you typed “Stanford,” you got random pages that mentioned Stanford. This obviously wasn’t going to work.</span></p> <figure id="attachment_14873" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-14873 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP10070815186.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-14873 size-full lazyload" alt="Google's Larry Page and his wife Lucy walk to a morning session at the annual Allen & Co. media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, in 2010. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)" width="2280" height="1611" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP10070815186.jpg 2280w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP10070815186-380x269.jpg 380w, /web/20180826154015im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP10070815186-760x537.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP10070815186.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2010: Larry Page and his wife, Lucy, walk to a session at the annual Allen & Co. media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho.</figcaption></figure><p class="p2"><span class="s1"><b>Larry Page, where do you go from here? What do you see yourself doing in ten or 20 years?</b></span></p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180826154015if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/U3VeYCLaEbg?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light&start=0&end=0&version=3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-and-Page-2000-MasterEdit.00_05_09_00.Still007-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Brin-and-Page-2000-MasterEdit.00_05_09_00.Still007-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Larry Page: Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. So we have the ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. That’s obviously artificial intelligence, to be able to answer any question, basically, because almost everything is on the Web, right? We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on. And that’s tremendously interesting from an intellectual standpoint.</p> </div> </div>     <aside class="collapse" id="full-interview">    <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <p><strong>Larry, you’re a CEO at 27. What challenges or frustrations have you experienced at reaching this station at such a young age?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: I think the age is a real issue. It’s certainly a handicap in the sense of being able to manage people and to hire people and all these kinds of things, maybe more so than it should be. Certainly, I think, the things that I’m missing are more things that you acquire with time. If you manage people for 20 years, or something like that, you pick up things. So I certainly lack experience there, and that’s an issue. But I sort of make up for that, I think, in terms of understanding where things are going to go, having a vision about the future, and really understanding the industry I am in, and what the company does, and also sort of the unique position of starting a company and working on it for three years before starting the company. Then working on it pretty hard, whatever, 24 hours a day. So I understand a lot of the aspects pretty well. I guess that compensates a little bit for lack of skills in other areas.</p> <p><strong>What about you, Sergey? What challenges or obstacles have you had to deal with so far?</strong></p> <p>Sergey Brin: I will list several. One is providing a service that’s going to serve millions of people. When we were at Stanford, we had about 10,000 searches per day. Now we serve over 50 million searches per day. That scaling of an infrastructure, that is pretty challenging. On a more personal level, I am now the President of Google, and we have about 170 people now. I think managing people, and being emotionally sensitive, and all the skills you learn in terms of communication and keeping people motivated, that has been a challenge. I have enjoyed learning that, but that’s important, and a hard thing to learn.</p> <p><strong>Larry Page, what is responsible for your early progress in life? How did you get to where you are so quickly?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: I think I was really lucky to have the environment I did when I was growing up. My dad was a professor, he happened to be a professor of computer science, and we had computers lying around the house from a really early age. I think I was the first kid in my elementary school to turn in a word-processed document. I just enjoyed using the stuff. It was sort of lying around, and I got to play with it. I had an older brother who was interested in it as well. So I think I had kind of a unique environment, that most people didn’t have, because my dad was willing to spend all his available income on buying a computer or whatever. It was like 1978, when I was six. I don’t think there’s many people my age who’ve had that experience, or anyone in general. From a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became really interested in technology and also then, soon after, in business, because I figured that inventing things wasn’t any good; you really had to get them out into the world and have people use them to have any effect. So probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually.</p> <p><strong>How do you think you knew at such an early age that you wanted to be an inventor?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: I just sort of kept having ideas. We had a lot of magazines lying around our house. It was kind of messy. So you kind of read stuff all the time, and I would read <em>Popular Science</em> and things like that. I just got interested in stuff, I guess, technology and how devices work. My brother taught me how to take things apart, and I took apart everything in the house. So I just became interested in it, for whatever reason, and so I had lots of ideas about what things could be built and how to build them and all these kinds of things. I built like an electric go-cart at a pretty early age.</p> <p><strong>It’s as if computers were the toys of your childhood.</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: Yeah, basically, and electronics too.</p> <p><strong>You mentioned reading magazines like <em>Popular Mechanics</em>. What else did you read that might have influenced or inspired you in some way?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: I read all the computer magazines and things like that, and I was sort of interested in how these things really work — anything having to do with the mechanics behind things, either the mechanics or the electronics. I wanted to be able to build things. Actually, in college I built an inkjet printer out of Legos, because I wanted to be able to print really big images. I figured you could print really big posters really cheaply using inkjet cartridges. So I reverse-engineered the cartridge, and I built all the electronics and mechanics to drive it. Just sort of fun projects. I like to be able to do those kinds of things.</p> <p><strong>Sergey, how old are you now?</strong></p> <p>Sergey Brin: Twenty-seven.</p> <p><strong>What do you think influenced or inspired you to do what you have at such a young age?</strong></p> <p>Sergey Brin: I certainly like to think I’m young, but these days by Silicon Valley standards, I’m getting to be over the hill. If you look at Napster, for example, the founder is what? Twenty?</p> <p>I was really interested in computers ever since I got one, when I was in elementary school. Eventually, I went on to join the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford. Those purely… The interest of what can you do with all of the world’s information — now that it’s online — that interest spawned Google. And that was together with Larry Page, who is my co-founder and partner.</p> <p>Sergey Brin: I think as a kid, I always had a kind of scientific curiosity. I was always interested in mathematics, and I always enjoyed doing math problems. In fact, my undergrad, I had a degree in both math and computer science. I think, eventually, I was really inspired by computers because of the amazing power that they give you. Today’s PCs do a billion operations per second. It’s almost inconceivable, and I think that was the most inspiring thing to me, how you could leverage that to actually produce something that was useful, beyond video games and things like that.</p> <p><strong>At what age would you say you had this realization?</strong></p> <p>Sergey Brin: I remember in middle school, a very good friend — who I’m still in touch with — he had a Macintosh, one of the early ones, and together, he and I would just sit and play around and program. We had little programs for artificial intelligence. We’d have a program that would talk back to you. We wrote a program to simulate gravity. I remember we wrote a program to do what’s called “OCR” now, optical character recognition. It was just for fun, and purely out of intellectual curiosity. I think that is probably the first time that I really experienced that.</p> <p><strong>So this is what you did in your spare time. This is what you did for fun.</strong></p> <p>Sergey Brin: I have to admit I was a bit of a nerd. I still am.</p> <p><strong>Were there any particular books that were especially important to you along the way?</strong></p> <p>Sergey Brin: I remember really enjoying (Richard) Feynman’s books. He had several autobiographical books, and I read them. It seemed like a very great life he led. Aside from making really big contributions in his own field, he was pretty broad-minded. I remember he had an excerpt where he was explaining how he really wanted to be a Leonardo, an artist and a scientist. I found that pretty inspiring. I think that leads to having a fulfilling life. Beyond that, just within the computer field, there are classical books I still find impressive, like <em>Snow Crash</em> by Neal Stephenson. That was really ten years ahead of its time. It kind of anticipated what’s going to happen, and I find that really interesting.</p> <p><strong>Are there any particular challenges you associate with being a son of immigrants who came to this country from Russia?</strong></p> <p>Sergey Brin: If anything, I think I benefit from it. I will say, as a child, I had an accent. I came to the U.S. at the age of six, and so I was teased and stuff in elementary school. I don’t regard myself as being really popular going through school, but that was never that important to me, and I always had friends. I think, if anything, I feel like I have gotten a gift by being in the States rather than growing up in Russia. I know the hard times that my parents went through there, and I am very thankful that I was brought to the States. I think it just makes me appreciate my life much more.</p> <p><strong>You certainly have an aptitude for it. Is this because of your early education or your parents? How do you explain that?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: Actually, my brother was nine years older than me, and he went to Michigan as well. He brought home some of his labs for electronics and things like that, and sort of gave them to me. I learned how to do the stuff. I think there were a lot of lucky things like that.</p> <p><strong>You seem to have had no fear of any of this. Where does this self-confidence come from?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: I think that’s true of kids today as well. If you have access to these things at a really young age, you just become used to it all, and it is natural to you. Kids certainly don’t have fear of using computers now. It’s the same kind of thing. If you grow up in environments where you have ICs (integrated circuits) lying around, you don’t have fear of that either.</p> <p><strong>And here you are now, a CEO at what age?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: I’m 27.</p> <p><strong>Do you have siblings?</strong></p> <p>Sergey Brin: I have a brother who is 13, and that’s a big age difference, obviously. Maybe I’ve turned him away from computers and technical fields. He wants to be completely different. His interests are more in sports and languages these days.</p> <p><strong>It appears that it’s people of your generation who have really introduced the so-called “24/7 mentality.” Are you aware of that? Do you think that accounts for your success?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: I think it definitely helps to be really focused on what you are doing. You can only work so many hours, and I try to have some balance in my life and so on. I think a lot of people go through this in school. They work really hard. You can do that for part of your life, but you can’t do that indefinitely. At some point, you want to have a family. You want to have more time to do other things. I would say that it is an advantage being young. You don’t have as many other responsibilities.</p> <p><strong>What else are you doing these days?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: I think I am really lucky. Being in the Bay Area, a lot of my friends have started companies that have been quite successful at different stages. So I go up to San Francisco and I hang out with my friends, and we talk about their companies and all sorts of different things. It is fun, but it is also work in some sense. I think within Silicon Valley there is really a mix of recreation and work a lot of times.</p> <p><strong>What do they think of people like you at Stanford and Michigan? You are extraordinary people they’re sending out into the world.</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: Well, thank you. It was kind of strange for me. I went back to Michigan and there was all this faculty who wanted to meet with me. It was just very strange, going from a student to that. At Google, especially, we are really lucky. Everybody is our product! Or it’s starting to be everybody. No matter who you talk to, they’re like, “Oh, Google today was great. I found exactly what I needed.” Somehow we’ve done a really good job. People are really happy with our company, and we have provided pretty good service. So that sort of transfers onto how people interact with me as well, which is really nice.</p> <p><strong>It used to be that a Ph.D. candidate hoped to have his or her dissertation published in some obscure academic journal. Your dissertation started a company and launched you on a career.</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: There are a lot of students at Stanford who have started companies based on their research work. I think Stanford does a pretty good job with that. There is obviously a lot of infrastructure, but also there is an acceptance of it, which I think is good.</p> <p><strong>Is there an expectation?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: There is sort of a joke that faculty members have to start a company before they get tenure. I don’t think that’s quite true. The faculty are very focused on what is going on in the world, which I think is a good thing. The danger is if you’re not doing research because you are pushed into things that are just practical.</p> <p><strong>Sergey, to ask you a different question, what would you like to be remembered for, down the road?</strong></p> <p>Sergey Brin: In terms of being remembered, I think I want to make the world a better place. That’s a pretty generic answer, but I mean it in several ways. One is through Google, the company, in terms of giving people access to information. I’m sure I will do other endeavors in terms of technologies and businesses. The second is just through philanthropy. I don’t have a significant amount of wealth beyond that on paper right now, but I hope that I have the opportunity to direct resources to the right places. I think that is the most important thing to me. I don’t think my quality of life is really going to improve that much with more money.</p> <p><strong>Larry Page, what do you see as the responsibilities that go along with success and the accumulation of wealth that we are seeing in Silicon Valley today?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: I think there is tremendous responsibility. If I was not in this situation, my biggest concern would be the concentration of wealth and power in a very small number of people. On the other hand, it is nice to be rewarded for what you do. There are a lot of things I would like to do in the world that having a lot of resources would really help with.</p> <p><strong>What do you want to do?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: I have been really interested in applying technology to transportation. I don’t think that has really been done. Making cars better. There are a lot of interesting systems people have designed that basically are small monorails that run along sidewalks, and that route you exactly where you want to go. Some of these things are actually quite practical. As a side interest, I have kind of followed this stuff. When I was in Michigan, I tried to get them to build a monorail between central and north campus, because it is only a two-mile trip, and they have 40 full-sized diesel buses that run back and forth. Two miles! So that’s a prime candidate for new transportation.</p> <p><strong>Is there any reason for you to go back to Stanford and finish your degree? You have taken leave of absence from Stanford to be a CEO. Why bother to go back at all?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: Well, I think Stanford is a really great place. There’s really, really smart people around, and it’s really a fun place to be. Some people from other startups have gone back when things sort of calmed down. So it does happen. There are things I want to work on that are very speculative, and Stanford is a great place to do things like that. I didn’t start out building a search engine. I just said, “Oh, the links on the Web are probably interesting. Why don’t we try doing something with that?” I was pretty lucky that it was a useful thing to do. If you’re doing something you’re not sure is going to work at all, a company probably isn’t the right place to be doing it. Having incredibly bright people around to work with is a really nice thing. I could see going back for that purpose.</p> <p><strong>Will we see Larry Page Hall erected on the Stanford campus anytime soon?</strong></p> <p>Larry Page: Boy, I think I’d rather not have stuff named after me.</p> <p><strong>Thank you very much for talking with us. You guys are something. You really are.</strong></p> </div>  </aside>  <div class="read-more__toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#full-interview"><a href="#" class="sans-4 btn">Read full interview</a></div> </article> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="gallery" role="tabpanel"> <section class="isotope-wrapper">  <header class="toolbar toolbar--gallery bg-white clearfix"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="serif-4">Sergey Brin Gallery</div> </div> <div class="col-md-6 text-md-right isotope-toolbar"> <ul class="list-unstyled list-inline m-b-0 text-brand-primary sans-4"> <li class="list-inline-item" data-filter=".photo"><i class="icon-icon_camera"></i>25 photos</li> </ul> </div> </header> <div class="isotope-gallery isotope-box single-achiever__gallery clearfix"> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.80131578947368" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-brin-google-glass.jpg" data-image-caption="Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google Inc., wearing Project Glass Internet glasses at the Diane Von Furstenberg fashion show in New York City, 2012. 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(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)" data-image-copyright="wp-AP10070815186" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP10070815186-380x269.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP10070815186-760x537.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2317666126418" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wp-AP100708017593.jpg" data-image-caption="Google's Larry Page arrives to a morning session at the annual Allen & Co. media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, in 2010. 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(© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="wordpress-page-06Academy_758" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress-page-06Academy_758-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress-page-06Academy_758-505x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66447368421053" title="Chicago 2004: Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, former Academy student delegates, return as Honorees." data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - Chicago 2004: Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, former Academy student delegates, return as Honorees.">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/brinpage_lg.jpg" data-image-caption="Chicago, 2004: Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, former Academy student delegates, return as honorees.(© Academy of Achievement) " data-image-copyright="brinpage_lg" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/brinpage_lg-380x252.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/04/brinpage_lg-760x505.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.73289473684211" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_mineta_page_Academy2005_1299.jpg" data-image-caption="Awards Council member Larry Page presents the Golden Plate Award of the Academy of Achievement to Norman Mineta, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, at the 2005 International Achievement Summit in New York City. (© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="wordpress_mineta_page_Academy2005_1299" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_mineta_page_Academy2005_1299-380x278.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_mineta_page_Academy2005_1299-760x557.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_page_Academy2005_1071.jpg" data-image-caption="Google co-founder Larry Page first attended the Summit as a student; he returns once more as a member of the Awards Council at the 2005 International Achievement Summit in New York City. (© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="wordpress_page_Academy2005_1071" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_page_Academy2005_1071-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wordpress_page_Academy2005_1071-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.8" title="Google co-founder and former Academy of Achievement student delegate Sergey Brin (2nd from R) with UAE youth delegates Reem Almarzouqi, Shamma Al Mazrui, Iman Ben Chaibah, Hafsah Al Habsi and Khalifa Aljaziri." data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - Google co-founder and former Academy of Achievement student delegate Sergey Brin (2nd from R) with UAE youth delegates Reem Almarzouqi, Shamma Al Mazrui, Iman Ben Chaibah, Hafsah Al Habsi and Khalifa Aljaziri.">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/209.jpg" data-image-caption="Google co-founder and former Academy of Achievement student delegate Sergey Brin (2nd from R) with UAE youth delegates Reem Almarzouqi, Shamma Al Mazrui, Iman Ben Chaibah, Hafsah Al Habsi and Khalifa Aljaziri at the 2014 Summit in San Francisco. (© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="209" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/209-380x304.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2015/12/209-760x608.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66184210526316" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-72070527_master.jpg" data-image-caption="The home where Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented the garage to set up Google is seen October 2, 2006 in Menlo Park, California. Reportedly, Google purchased the 1,900 square foot house where they used to rent out the garage from Susan Wojcicki for $1,700 a month. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Google Buys Garage Where Company Was Founded" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-72070527_master-380x252.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-72070527_master-760x503.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.71052631578947" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-103917783_master.jpg" data-image-caption="September 8, 2010: Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin looks on during a question-and-answer session following the launch of the new Google Instant during a special launch event in San Francisco, California. Google announced the launch of Google Instant, a faster version of Google Search that streams results live as you type your query. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Google Previews New Search Technology" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-103917783_master-380x270.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-103917783_master-760x540.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.68552631578947" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-524130748_master.jpg" data-image-caption="April 8, 2003: Larry Page (L), Co-Founder and President, Products, and Sergey Brin, Co-Founder and President, Technology, pose inside the server room at Google's campus headquarters in Mountain View, California. They founded the company in 1998. (Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Portraits of the Founders of Google" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-524130748_master-380x261.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-524130748_master-760x521.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4990138067061" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-528779678_master.jpg" data-image-caption="September 22, 2008: Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, at a press event where Google and T-Mobile announced the first Android-powered cellphone, the T-Mobile G1. (James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="USA - Techonology - Google Introduces T-Mobile G1" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-528779678_master-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-GettyImages-528779678_master-507x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.61710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_615955114913.jpg" data-image-caption="September 25, 2012: Google co-founder Sergey Brin, after riding in a driverless car with officials to a bill-signing for driverless cars at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google engineers say they have turned a corner in their pursuit of creating a car that can drive itself. Test cars have been able to navigate freeways comfortably for a few years. On April 28, 2014, Google said the cars can now negotiate thousands of urban situations that would have stumped them a year or two ago. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)" data-image-copyright="Sergey Brin" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_615955114913-380x235.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_615955114913-760x469.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_490853211638.jpg" data-image-caption="May 28, 2014: The Google self-driving car. Larry Page was an honor student at the University of Michigan, where he participated in the university's solar car team, reflecting another lifelong interest: sustainable transportation technology. (Freightliner/Rex)" data-image-copyright="Google self-driving car - 28 May 2014" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_490853211638-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_490853211638-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.76578947368421" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_080902061441.jpg" data-image-caption="2008: Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page talk during a news conference at Google Inc. headquarters." data-image-copyright="Larry Page, Sergey Brin" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_080902061441-380x291.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-AP_080902061441-760x582.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.67236842105263" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-on-stage-with-two-men.jpg" data-image-caption="At the 2000 International Achievement Summit in London, Sir David Frost interviews 27-year-old Academy student delegate Sergey Brin and Douglas G. Carlston, founder of Brøderbund Software, about the future of technology. (© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="wp-brin-sergey-on-stage-with-two-men" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-on-stage-with-two-men-380x255.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-on-stage-with-two-men-760x511.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.65921052631579" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-with-Summit-panel-on-stage.jpg" data-image-caption="At the 2000 International Achievement Summit in London, Sir David Frost moderates a panel of Academy student delegates and Awards Council members, including delegates Sergey Brin (at far left) and Larry Page (at far right). (© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="wp-brin-sergey-with-summit-panel-on-stage" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-with-Summit-panel-on-stage-380x251.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-Brin-Sergey-with-Summit-panel-on-stage-760x501.jpg"></div>  </figure>    </div> </section> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <footer class="editorial-article__footer col-md-8 col-md-offset-4"> <div class="editorial-article__next-link sans-3"> <a href="#"><strong>What's next:</strong> <span class="editorial-article__next-link-title">profile</span></a> </div> <ul class="social list-unstyled list-inline ssk-group m-b-0"> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-facebook" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever on Facebook"><i class="icon-icon_facebook-circle"></i></a></li> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-twitter" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever on Twitter"><i class="icon-icon_twitter-circle"></i></a></li>  <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-email" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever via Email"><i class="icon-icon_email-circle"></i></a></li> </ul> <time class="editorial-article__last-updated sans-6">This page last revised on August 13, 2018</time> <div class="sans-4"><a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/how-to-cite" target="_blank">How to cite this page</a></div> </footer> </div> <div class="container interview-related-achievers"> <hr class="m-t-3 m-b-3"/> <footer class="clearfix small-blocks text-xs-center"> <h3 class="m-b-3 serif-3">If you are inspired by this achiever’s story, you might also enjoy:</h3> <div class="centered-blocks"> <div class="isotope-achiever business build-or-create-things curious resourceful start-a-business " data-year-inducted="2001" data-achiever-name="Bezos"> <div class="achiever-block view-grid"> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jeffrey-p-bezos/"> <figure class="ratio-container ratio-container--square bg-black"> <div class="lazyload box achiever-block__image" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bez0-007a-190x190.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/03/bez0-007a-380x380.jpg"></div> <div class="achiever-block__overlay"></div> <figcaption class="text-xs-center achiever-block__text"> <div class="display--table"> <div class="display--table-cell"> <div class="achiever-block__text--center"> <div class="achiever-block__name text-brand-primary">Jeffrey P. 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Berger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-timothy-berners-lee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Tim Berners-Lee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/yogi-berra/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Yogi Berra</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jeffrey-p-bezos/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeffrey P. Bezos</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/benazir-bhutto/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Benazir Bhutto</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/simone-biles/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Simone Biles</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/keith-l-black/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Keith L. Black, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/elizabeth-blackburn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-boies-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Boies</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/norman-e-borlaug/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman E. Borlaug, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/benjamin-c-bradlee/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Benjamin C. Bradlee</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sergey-brin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sergey Brin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carter-j-brown/"><span class="achiever-list-name">J. Carter Brown</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/linda-buck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Linda Buck, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carol-burnett/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol Burnett</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/george-h-w-bush/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George H. W. Bush</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/susan-butcher/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Susan Butcher</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-cameron/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Cameron</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/benjamin-s-carson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Benjamin S. Carson, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jimmy-carter/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jimmy Carter</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/johnny-cash/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Cash</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/william-j-clinton/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William J. Clinton</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/francis-s-collins/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/denton-a-cooley/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Denton A. Cooley, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/francis-ford-coppola/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Francis Ford Coppola</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ray-dalio/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Dalio</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/olivia-de-havilland/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Olivia de Havilland</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/michael-e-debakey-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/michael-dell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Michael S. Dell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ron-dennis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Dennis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/joan-didion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Joan Didion</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-herbert-donald-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David Herbert Donald, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/rita-dove/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Rita Dove</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sylvia-earle/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/elbaradei/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mohamed ElBaradei</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/gertrude-elion/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Gertrude B. Elion, M.Sc.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/larry-j-ellison/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Larry J. Ellison</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nora-ephron/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nora Ephron</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/julius-erving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Julius Erving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/tony-fadell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Tony Fadell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/paul-farmer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Farmer, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/suzanne-farrell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Suzanne Farrell</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sally-field/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sally Field</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lord-norman-foster/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lord Norman Foster</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/milton-friedman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Milton Friedman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-fuentes/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Fuentes</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/athol-fugard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Athol Fugard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ernest-j-gaines/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernest J. Gaines</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/william-h-gates-iii/"><span class="achiever-list-name">William H. Gates III</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-gehry/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank O. Gehry</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/murray-gell-mann-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carlos-ghosn/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carlos Ghosn</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/vince-gill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Vince Gill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ruth-bader-ginsburg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louise-gluck/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louise Glück</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/whoopi-goldberg/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Whoopi Goldberg</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jane-goodall/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dame Jane Goodall</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/doris-kearns-goodwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mikhail-s-gorbachev/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mikhail S. Gorbachev</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nadine-gordimer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nadine Gordimer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Stephen Jay Gould, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carol-greider-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carol Greider, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-grisham/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Grisham</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dorothy-hamill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dorothy Hamill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Demis Hassabis, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/lauryn-hill/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Lauryn Hill</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-edmund-hillary/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Edmund Hillary</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/reid-hoffman/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Reid Hoffman</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/khaled-hosseini/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Khaled Hosseini, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ron-howard/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ron Howard</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-hume/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Hume</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/louis-ignarro-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Louis Ignarro, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/daniel-inouye/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Daniel K. Inouye</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/jeremy-irons/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Jeremy Irons</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-irving/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John Irving</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/kazuo-ishiguro/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Kazuo Ishiguro</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/sir-peter-jackson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Sir Peter Jackson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/donald-c-johanson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-m-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank M. Johnson, Jr.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/philip-johnson/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Philip C. Johnson</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/chuck-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Chuck Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-earl-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James Earl Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/quincy-jones/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Quincy Jones</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/beverly-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Beverly Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/dereck-joubert/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Dereck Joubert</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/paul-kagame/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Paul Kagame</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/thomas-keller-2/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Thomas Keller</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/anthony-m-kennedy/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Anthony M. Kennedy</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/b-b-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">B.B. King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/carole-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Carole King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/coretta-scott-king/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Coretta Scott King</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-kissinger-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry A. Kissinger, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/willem-j-kolff/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willem J. Kolff, M.D., Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wendy-kopp/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wendy Kopp</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/henry-r-kravis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Henry R. Kravis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/nicholas-d-kristof/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Nicholas D. Kristof</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mike-krzyzewski/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mike Krzyzewski</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ray-kurzwell/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ray Kurzweil</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/eric-lander-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-s-langer-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert S. Langer, Sc.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/richard-leakey/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Richard E. Leakey</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/leon-lederman-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Leon Lederman, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/robert-lefkowitz-m-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Robert J. Lefkowitz, M.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/congressman-john-r-lewis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Congressman John R. Lewis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/maya-lin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Maya Lin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/george-lucas/"><span class="achiever-list-name">George Lucas</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/norman-mailer/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Norman Mailer</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/peyton-manning/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Peyton Manning</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/wynton-marsalis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Wynton Marsalis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/john-c-mather-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">John C. Mather, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/johnny-mathis/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Johnny Mathis</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/ernst-mayr-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Ernst Mayr, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/willie-mays/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Willie Mays</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/frank-mccourt/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Frank McCourt</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/david-mccullough/"><span class="achiever-list-name">David McCullough</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/audra-mcdonald/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Audra McDonald</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/admiral-william-h-mcraven/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Admiral William H. McRaven, USN</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/w-s-merwin/"><span class="achiever-list-name">W. S. Merwin</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/james-a-michener/"><span class="achiever-list-name">James A. Michener</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/marvin-minsky-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Marvin Minsky, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/mario-j-molina-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">Mario J. Molina, Ph.D.</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20180826154015/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/n-scott-momaday-ph-d/"><span class="achiever-list-name">N. 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