Larry Page was born in 1973 in Michigan to two computer science professors. His home was filled with books, computers, and academic debates. Curiosity wasn’t encouraged it was expected.
By age six, he was already using computers. By his teens, he was taking machines apart and rebuilding them. Larry wasn’t loud or flashy. He was analytical, introverted, and obsessed with how systems worked at scale.

He studied computer engineering at the University of Michigan, then moved to Stanford for a PhD. That’s where one question started consuming him: What if you could organize all the world’s information?

At Stanford, Larry teamed up with Sergey Brin. Together, they built a research project called Backrub, a search engine that ranked websites based on links, not keywords.
The tech worked. But nobody wanted it.

They tried selling it. Yahoo passed. AltaVista passed. Others ignored it. Search wasn’t considered a real business. Funding was scarce. They maxed credit cards, borrowed servers, and worked out of cramped offices.

The idea was massive. The belief was fragile.

In 1998, they officially launched Google. One simple page. One empty search bar. No ads. No clutter.
Then growth exploded.

Google delivered better results than anything else. Users kept coming back. Traffic compounded daily. Eventually, advertisers followed.
Larry made a key decision early: Google would optimize for users first, money second. That philosophy shaped everything from product design to long-term strategy.

By the mid 2000s, Google wasn’t just a search engine. It was the gateway to the internet.

Google went public in 2004. Larry became a billionaire in his early 30s.
But he didn’t stop at search.

Under Larry’s leadership, Google expanded into:

In 2015, he restructured the company into Alphabet, giving Google room to dominate while funding moonshots like self driving cars, AI, and life sciences.

Today, Alphabet generates $300B+ in annual revenue. Larry Page’s net worth consistently ranks above $100B, even while he stays mostly out of the spotlight.