Sergey Brin – Biography, Net Worth, Education, Wife or Girlfriend and Affairs

Sergey Brin's Net Worth as of April 2024 is $109.2 Billion

Quick Facts of Sergey Brin

Google has been a dominant company in terms of offering internet-related services and it is not a secret that the multinational enterprise was founded by Sergey Brin.

As the story goes, Brin met Page at Stanford, became friends, metamorphosed into intellectual buddies, and created the PageRank algorithm which they eventually used to design a robust search engine that ultimately birthed the vastly acclaimed Google of today.

Beyond Google, the American internet entrepreneur has been involved in other profitable and landmark endeavors that have made it impossible for the world to avoid acknowledging him as one of its most influential entities.

Way back in 2002, the computer scientist and his partner were acknowledged among the top 100 innovators below 35 years by MIT Technology Review.

The IE Business School awarded them an honorary MBA the following year, just as they equally received the EY Entrepreneur award of the year. 2004 brought them the Academy of Achievement’s Golden Plate Award, the Marconi Foundation Prize, and saw them become Fellows of the foundation.

A couple of years later (2009), they were inducted into the National Academy of Engineering with Forbes proclaiming them the 5th most powerful individual on earth.

Is Sergey Brin rich than Larry Page?

As of August 2022, Larry’s page is rich than Sergey Brin with a net worth of $94 billion whereas Sergey Brin’s net worth is $90.8 billion.

Sergey Brin Biography, Age, Education

This Internet entrepreneur was named Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin after he was birthed on August 21, 1973. Though he was born in Moscow in the then socialist state – the Soviet Union, he was practically raised in the United State of America as his family immigrated to the country when he was 6.

Considering the careers of his Russian-Jewish parents, it is not surprising that Sergey turned out a renowned computer scientist. While his mom Eugenia Brin is a NASA researcher, his dad is a University of Maryland mathematics professor.

It is said that the man stirred his son’s interest in the subject, influencing his educational path and the course of his life.

Sergey Brin received his earliest formal education in Adelphi, Maryland at a Montessori School. He later became a student at a public high school located in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The school (Eleanor Roosevelt High School) helped Sergey to polish his knowledge in mathematics, engineering, science, and technology. He moved on to the University of Maryland where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and mathematics.

Thereafter, he went to Stanford University for his graduate study on a grant awarded by the National Science Foundation.

Sergey Brin’s Height and Weight

Sergey Brin has a height of 5ft 8inches(1.73m) and a weight of 72kg (158.73 lbs). Besides these, Sergey Brin has dark brown hair with a pair of dark brown eyes.

What is Sergey Brin doing now?

A famous billionaire Sergey Brin is now the controller shareholder and a board member of Google. He is the co-founder of Google.

Sergey Brin’s Wife, Girlfriend, and Affairs

The co-founder of Google was once a married man. He married his ex-wife, Anne Wojcicki in the Bahamas sometime in May 2007.

The Sergey-Anne union saw the birth of 2 children; they first welcomed their son Benji Wojin in 2008 and then her sister (Chloe Wojin) in 2011. Unfortunately, the kids they share didn’t stop their marriage from falling apart.

It first emerged in August 2013 that Brin and Wojcicki are having issues, many doubted this until it was confirmed that they are no longer living together. If there was any hope of the two finding their way back to each other’s arms, it was shattered when they finalized their divorce in June 2015.

Even as details of what led to their divorce have largely remained unknown, there is no doubt that it was triggered by Sergey’s extramarital affair; he cheated on Anne with a Google employee.

Meanwhile, it is in certain quarters that Sergey Brin’s girlfriend is Nicole Shanahan – the founder and CEO of ClearAccessIP.

Sergey Brin’s ex-wife is the co-founder and CEO of 23andMe, a genomics and biotechnology company. Although they are no longer married, they still run The Brin Wojcicki Foundation together. 

Sergey Brin and Larry Page are the presidents and CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. They both met at Standford University while they are studying computer science and then both launched Goole in the year 1998.

Who Owns Google now?

Google was reconstructed and created as Alphabet Inc which is an American Multinational Technology Conglomerate company which is in California. It is the parent company of Google.

Sergey Brin’s Net Worth

For a man of his merit, it’s not unusual that people have been keeping track of his wealth and, it’s common knowledge that he’s one of the richest people in the world.

Known as the richest immigrant in America, this computer scientist, is worth $109.2 billion as of July 2022. Sergey Brin is significantly wealthier than he was in 2015, the year Google restructured its operations and created its parent company, Alphabet.

Serving as the president of Alphabet, Brin’s net worth climbed from $32 billion to where it’s currently at. His properties include the 6,678 square foot home he bought for $5.3 million in Los Altos and the Greenwich Village condo in New York City which he purchased for $8.5 million in 2008.

Brin and his partner  Larry are owners of two planes and according to reports, they pay $1.3 million to house them yearly.

Social Media: Instagram, Twitter

He is not active on any social media platform including Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Sergey Brin’s Some Quotes

• “Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.“

• “Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice – fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.”

• “Before Google, I don’t think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple of thousand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren’t necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.”

• “It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.”

• “I am sometimes something of a lazy person, so when I end up spending a lot of time using something myself – as I did with Google in the earliest of days, I knew it was a big deal.”

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