Larry E. Page

While a student in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Page got an idea from a friend of his, Alex Sonkin. He then met Sergey Brin and, together they developed and ran the Google search engine, which began operating in 1998. Google is based on patented PageRank technology, which relies on the structure of links between web sites to determine the ranking of an individual site. Page is still "on leave" from the Ph.D. program.

Page ran Google as co-president with Brin until 2001, when they hired Eric Schmidt to become Chairman and CEO of Google. Page now runs Google as a triumvirate, along with Brin and Schmidt.

Page and co-founder Sergey Brin are estimated to be worth $11 billion apiece. The two have recently purchased the very large passenger plane Boeing 767 for their private purpose. Lawrence E. Page, more commonly known as Larry Page (born March 26, 1973 in Ann Arbor, Michigan), is one of the founders of the Google internet search engine, and is currently the President of Products of Google Inc..