The person I chose to talk about from the Forbe's List is Sergey Brin who is the twenty fourth richest person in the world. He is also the youngest person in the top twenty-five. At the age of 36 he is worth 17.5 billion dollars. Brin is the co-founder of Google along with fellow Stanford grad Larry Page. The Pair left their studies to focus on developing the Google search engine. Sergey Brin and his partner Larry Page went on to become two of the wealthiest young entrepreneurs in America with the success of their university project, Google.
"Brin and Page left their studies at Stanford University and started Google Inc. in 1998. The popularity of the search engine increased dramatically, forcing the company to constantly expand its computing power, improve its technology, and move to bigger premises (now situated at the "Googleplex" in Mountain View, California). The company became a publicly traded company in 2004 (traded on the NASDAQ as GOOG) with individual shares being valued at $85 each and quickly rose to $100+ in the first day of trading. Google has continued to grow through acquiring and creating new Internet services and products online. The stock price also grew rapidly to more than $420 per share at the end of November in 2005." (http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/sergey-brin/index.htm)
Google since it's start in 1998 has grown into the largest search engine in the world. Last year, Google and China got into a lawsuit because China is strict on what their citizens can search on the web and wanted Google to block everything.
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