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Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who were being pushed by their venture investors to find an “adult” to serve as CEO of a young search-engine company, Google.
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
Sergey Brin | All-In Summit 2024
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businessinsider.com • The Untold Story of Larry Page's Incredible Comeback
Larry Page and Sergey Brin had figured out how to mine that knowledge before the information retrieval establishment and commercial search engines even realized that it existed.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin didn’t set out to create one of the fastest-growing startup companies in history; they didn’t even start out seeking to revolutionize the way we search for information on the web. Their first goal, as collaborators on the Stanford Digital Library Project, was to solve a much smaller problem: how to priorit
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Kleinberg was trying to understand network behavior. Page and Brin were building something.