Sergey Brin
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- Born
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- Co-founder of Google
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- American
The other half of Google — the mathematician who took Larry Page's link idea and turned it into a working search engine.
Brin was born in Moscow and came to the United States at the age of six. At Stanford he was researching data mining when he and Page began working together; their joint 1998 paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" describes the system they then called Backrub.
Inside the company he stayed close to the technology for a long time and led what became Google X, with projects such as self-driving cars and Google Glass. He stepped back from the operational role at Alphabet in 2019 but remains on the board, and is reported to have returned to hands-on work on the company's AI models.