Larry Page

Larry Page is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist with an estimated net worth of approximately $270 billion. He is best known as the co-founder of Google, and remains one of the wealthiest people in the world through his ownership stake in Alphabet Inc.

Early Life & Family

Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26, 1973, in East Lansing, Michigan. Both of his parents worked in computer science: his father, Carl Page, was a computer science professor at Michigan State University, and his mother, Gloria, also taught computer programming. He grew up immersed in technology and attended the Okemos Montessori School and East Lansing High School.

Rise to Fame

Page earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan before enrolling in a PhD program at Stanford University, where he met Sergey Brin. Together they developed the PageRank algorithm for ranking web pages, which became the foundation for a search engine they launched from a garage in Menlo Park, California, founding Google in 1998.

Career History

Page served as Google’s first CEO before becoming President of Products, then returned as CEO in 2011. In 2015, he led the restructuring of Google under a new holding company, Alphabet Inc., becoming Alphabet’s CEO. He stepped down from that role in December 2019, handing the reins to Sundar Pichai, though he has remained a board member and one of Alphabet’s controlling shareholders through his supervoting shares.

How They Built Their Wealth

Page’s fortune comes almost entirely from his ownership stake in Alphabet Inc., roughly 6% of the company, combined with Class B supervoting shares that give him and Sergey Brin combined majority voting control. His net worth fluctuates significantly with Alphabet’s stock price. He has also made personal investments in ventures outside Alphabet, including flying car startups such as Kitty Hawk and Opener.

Personal Life

Page has been married to biomedical researcher Lucinda Southworth since 2007, and the couple have two children. He is known for being intensely private and rarely gives public interviews.

Through his stake in the company he co-founded, Larry Page’s estimated net worth stands at approximately $270 billion.