# Digital Media Concepts/Larry Page

Larry Page was born on March 26, 1973. He is an American entrepreneur that co-founded Google and is a chief executive officer of Alphabet inc. He was married on the year of 2007 with Lucinda Southworth and had two children. Their children's names are unknown but one was a boy born in the year of 2009 and the second child was born in the year of 2011.

## Early life

Larry Page was born in East Lansing, Michigan on March 26, 1973. His father's name is Carl Page, he had a computer science career in artificial intelligence. His mother Gloria Page teaches computer science to students. At the age of 12 he wanted to start a company because he was interested in innovation and business. As a kid played saxophone and tried to play percussion. He was in the school's solar car team which they had an idea of creating a rapid transportation system between all of University of Michigan campuses.

## Education

He went to get a Bachelors degree in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Then he decided to study further in which he went to Stanford University. Larry Page made a friend named Sergrey Brin and they collaborated on a project of making a search engine. They called the search engine Google. They launched the project in 1988.

## Google

Google began as a search engine. Google is a company that focuses on internet programs and services.'
1988- when Google was officially named a company
2001- Eric Schmidt became the CEO of Google
2004- Made a social networking site called Orkut and they made a Google Desktop Search, plus they made a website called Google.org which helped problems and issues socially
2005- They released Google Maps,Google Reader, Blogger Mobile and iGoogle
2006- Google got YouTube and added a chatting feature to Gmail
2007- Partnered with Salesforce and China Mobile. Later in the year partnered with Google Apps for education that branched through Rwanda and Kenya
2008- Updated Google Earth,created Google Sites and Google Health
2009- Launched Google Latitude, updated Google Earth
2010- Google got Picnik and Aardvark, which they made a marketplace that allowed developers to create apps using the cloud
2011- Larry Page was named CEO and Eric Schmidt became Executive Chairman. The shut down Google Health.

## Achievements & Accomplishments

2002 - TR100 (Top 100 innovators in the world)
2002 - Global leader for tomorrow
2004 - Marconi Foundation Prize with Sergrey Brin
2004- X Prize , appointed to National Academy Engineering
2008- Communication award
2009- honorary doctorate at University of Michigan
2011- 24th on the Forbes list of billionaires, 11th richest in the U.S
2014- Business person of the year on the magazine name Fortune
2015- 1st in Forbes America's Most Popular Chief Executives

## Intresting Facts

Larry page has a one dollar salary which basically means that owners of companies can elect to earn one dollar per year from your company.
He has a disease called Hashimoto's Thyroiditis.
Larry Page invests in Kitty Hawk, Planetary Resources, Twigtale, and Tesla.
Larry Page has a estimate home value of a 8 million dollar mansion in Palo Alto, California. The mansion is 8,149 sq ft.
He has a yacht called Senses.The yacht is 45.9 million dollars.
Larry Page owns a island in the British Virgin Islands. The island is called Eustasia Island. Everything is completely solar-powered and has luxury villas on the island.

## Controversies

Larry page had a statement where he thought that his company did not need any supervisors because they only hired the best of the best. Larry page wanted to do pursue his ideas and blamed project managers for not telling employees to work on them. Larry page was ignoring a human resources boss because she kept on telling Mr.Page that he needs to have supervisors so that employees can get their problems answered in the most quickest and efficient way possible. Although he was the main boss he was not having good practices of proper work environment.

## Citations

* ↑ "Larry Page Family". www.celebfamily.com. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
* 1 2 https://www.biography.com/scientist/larry-page
* 1 2 https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/larry-page-3344.php
* 1 2 D'Onfro, Jillian. "The spectacular life of Google founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
* ↑ https://www.toppr.com/bytes/larry-page/
* ↑ "Who is Larry Page? Everything You Need to Know". www.thefamouspeople.com. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
* ↑ https://www.toppr.com/bytes/larry-page/
* ↑ https://www1.salary.com/Larry-Page-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Options-for-ALPHABET-INC.html
* ↑ https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/us/larry-page-fast-facts/index.html
* ↑ “Larry Page Investments.” Crunchbase, 2016, www.crunchbase.com/person/larry-page/investments/investments_list.
* ↑ https://www.businessinsider.com/us-tech-founder-mansions-2012-8#22-larry-pages-eco-friendly-palo-alto-mansion-4
* ↑ http://www.firstmateyachtcare.com/blog/2011/01/12/google-founder-larry-page-buys-luxury-yacht-senses
* ↑ https://virgincharteryachts.com/7-billionaires-and-the-amazing-private-islands-they-call-home
* ↑ https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-the-untold-story-2014-4

## External Links

* https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-google-boys/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J7TRSLf55U
* https://wealthygorilla.com/larry-page-quotes/