Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brinis a Russian-born American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. Today, Brin serves as President of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc. According to Forbes List February 2016, he is jointly one of three people listed as 11th richest in the world, with a net worth of US$39.2 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth21 August 1973
CityMoscow, Russia
CountryUnited States of America
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.
Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.
We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.
If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.
Too many rules with stifle innovation.
You can make money without doing evil.
It's a romantic notion that you're going to have one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great... but the execution and delivery are what's key.
whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.
Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.
Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.
Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.
I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself - as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.
Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.
We will intensify our efforts to build out our infrastructure overseas and to develop products that are tailored to individual markets.