Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the two Founders of Alphabet Inc. Larry became the Chief Executive Officer of one of America’s largest technology and internet products and services conglomerate, Alphabet, in 2015. Alphabet houses Google and all its subsidiary companies to provide better management of the products and services that are not related to each other. The decision to build a new holding company through restructuring of Google Inc was announced by Larry. As Alphabet’s CEO Larry is focused on delivering growth across different industries.
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Alphabet Competitors
A Fortune 500 company and an internet services and retailing conglomerate, Alphabet competes with the likes of:
- Microsoft
- Yahoo
- Baidu
- Amazon
- Apple
Salary & Net Worth – Investors, Funding, & Valuation
With having a net worth of around 54.2 billion USD, Alphabet Inc. CEO Larry reportedly takes 1 USD in salary every year since 2004 when his company went public.
Among the publicly listed companies, Alphabet is reportedly the second to touch the valuation of 800 billion USD following Apple.
Institutional investors and mutual funds are arguably the owners of 80% of company’s shares. Some of the large investors include MainStreet Investment Advisors LLC, BlackRock Inc, Geode Capital Management LLC, and Alliancebernstein L.P. among others.
Funding related update will be provided later.
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Career & Education – Company, University, & College
Lawrence Edward Page is one of the Founders of Google and the Chief Executive Officer at Alphabet. He became Alphabet’s board member in 2015. Since 1998, he has been serving as the Board of Director at Google, and between 2011 and 2015 he returned to the highest leadership role of the company as CEO. Prior to that, from 2001 to 2011, he headed the Products division of Google as President, and previously from 1998 to 2001, he worked as CEO of Google. From 1998 to 2002, he also played the role of Chief Financial Officer.
Larry went to Stanford University for Master’s in Computer Science, and attended the University of Michigan to obtain Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
Contact Larry Page – Email Address | Twitter | LinkedIn
Larry is not available on Twitter or LinkedIn. He uses Google+ account for his interactions. You can visit his page here https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage. His email ID will be added later on.
Wiki Trivia on Larry Page – Age, Wife, Family, & More
Alphabet CEO Larry Page, age 45, grew up in East Lansing, Michigan. His birthday falls on March 26, 1973. His wife is Lucinda Southworth. Larry’s father Carl Victor Page, who went to University of Michigan for PhD in computer science, was referred to as “pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence” by reporter Will Smale of BBC. Carl joined Michigan State University as the professor of Computer Science and his wife Gloria (Larry’s mother) worked at Michigan State University and Lyman Briggs College teaching programming to students.
Page supports the use of clean energy and he is leading it by example by equipping his Palo Alto houses with geothermal energy and fuel cells. He has reportedly given Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk (both flying car companies) some funding.
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