Who is Larry Page and what is his net worth?
LARRY Page is known for co-founding Google in 1998.
Here, we look at his career and how much money he has made since starting the company.
Who is Larry Page and what is his net worth?
Larry Page is an American businessman, best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin in September 1998.
He also founded parent company Alphabet in 2015 alongside Brin.
Larry was born on March 26, 1963, in Michigan, US.
Page and Brin started the company whilst they were PhD students at Stanford University in California.
He has been married to Lucinda Southworth since 2007 and together they have two children named Gloria and Carl.
What is Larry Page’s net worth?
According to Forbes, Page has a net worth of $90.8billion (around £74billion) as of March 2023.
His Google co-founder Brin has a net worth of $87billion (around £71billion).
Page was CEO of Google on two occasions, firstly from 1998 to 2001 and again from 2011 and 2015.
He was CEO of Alphabet from 2015 to 2019, but still remains a board member and controlling shareholder of the company.
Who owns Google Now?
Since 2015, Google has been considered a subsidiary of Alphabet.
Alphabet is a holding company which controls a number of different organisations within it, with Google being the biggest.
Other companies under the banner include DeepMind, which is an artificial intelligence company, as well as Waymo, an autonomous driving company.
Waymo was formerly known as the Google self-driving car project.
Famous companies such as YouTube and Waze are also owned by the company, having been acquired after their creation.
Alphabet is owned by a number of shareholders, with American investment advisors The Vangaard group owning the most with seven per cent.
The organisation which owns the second most amount of shares is BlackRock, an American investment company. They own 6.2 per cent of the company.
Page currently owns 6.1 per cent of the company, with Brin owning 5.7 per cent.