Did you know that founder of Google was born in Russia? Neither did I. Shame on me! So I “googled” the founder of google and that what I found.

“I think, if anything, I feel like I have gotten a gift by being in the States rather than growing up in Russia. . . . It just make me appreciate my life that much more.” Sergey Brin

 

Sergey Brin was born on August, 21 1973 in Soviet Union. It was before the “iron curtain” went down. In 1979, when Brin was six, his family felt compelled to immigrate to the United States.

Brin immigrated to the United States at the age of six. Earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, he followed in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps by studying mathematics, double-majoring in computer science. After graduation, he moved to Stanford to acquire a Ph.D in computer science. There he met Larry Page, whom he quickly befriended. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin’s data mining  system to build a superior search engine. The program became popular at Stanford and they suspended their Ph.D studies to start up Google in a rented garage.