Sergey Brin was born in Moscow in 1973 to a Jewish family of mathematicians. His parents faced discrimination in the Soviet Union, limiting their careers and freedom. When Sergey was six, they made a risky decision: leave everything behind and immigrate to the United States.

They arrived with little money but one advantage education. Sergey grew up surrounded by math, logic, and problem solving. He learned early that systems could be unfair, but intelligence and persistence could bend outcomes.
By high school, he was already excelling in math and computer science. Stanford came next. That’s where curiosity met scale.

At Stanford, Sergey met Larry Page. Both were PhD students. Both were opinionated. They argued constantly.
Together, they worked on a research problem most people ignored: how to rank information on the growing internet in a smarter way.

Their project later called Backrub worked technically but had no clear business path. Search wasn’t sexy. Money was tight. They ran servers out of dorm rooms and borrowed hardware wherever they could.
They even tried selling the technology. No one wanted it.

Most people would’ve moved on. They didn’t.

In 1998, Sergey and Larry launched Google. No ads. No distractions. Just better search results. Users noticed immediately.

Growth exploded. Traffic compounded daily. Sergey focused on experimentation data, algorithms, and speed. He pushed Google to test constantly, break things early, and improve faster than anyone else.

When ads finally came, they were clean and relevant. Revenue followed trust. Google wasn’t chasing money it was earning it.

Google went public in 2004. Sergey became a billionaire in his early 30s.
But unlike most founders, he stayed largely out of the spotlight. While Google expanded into YouTube, Android, Maps, and AI, Sergey focused on innovation and moonshots.

He played a key role in Google X projects like self driving cars, advanced robotics, and life sciences.
As Google became Alphabet, Sergey stepped back from daily operations, letting systems and teams scale the company.

Today, Alphabet generates $300B+ in annual revenue, and Sergey Brin’s net worth consistently ranks above $100B. He rarely gives interviews. He doesn’t need to.