15 Incredible Facts About Sergey Brin
The launch of Google on the Internet is one of the greatest things that ever happened to the World Wide Web. It simply revolutionized how the internet could be used worldwide by a billion-fold. All credit goes to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, creators of the information era’s greatest virtual engine.
Here are some incredible life and career facts you should know about Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin.
1. Sergey Brin was one of the investors in Tesla and SpaceX when they were just startups.
2. Both Larry Page and Sergey Brin were just 25 years old Ph.D. batchmates at Stanford university when they founded Google.
3. Sergey Brin appeared as himself in the 2013 Hollywood film “The Internship”.
4. He is an avid skydiver, Aviation enthusiast, and even has a pilot’s license.
5. Brin and Page jointly own a customized Boeing 767-200 and a Dornier Alpha Jet.
6. In 2013, Brin was reportedly seen flying a blimp over California, the craft is believed to be the prototype of an airship for his LTA airship company he is secretly building since then.
7. Sergey Brin is the co-creator of 2012’s much-awaited, launched, and later discontinued project ” Google Glass “. Though the product couldn’t successfully capture the market attention of those times and trends, it surely paved way for many other wearable technologies like Smartwatches and AR headsets.
8. Reports were that Sergey Brin invested $100 million in a company called “Impossible Foods,” a plant-based meat alternatives company, in 2018.
9. Brin is a Polyglot, very fluent in English, Russian, and Hebrew. He even studied Spanish and French.
10. He is the recipient of “The Marconi Prize “, which is considered the “Highest Award in Engineering”
11. He is on Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2004, 2014, and 2015.
12. In 2009, Forbes named Sergey Brin and Larry Page the fifth most powerful people in the world.
13. Sergey Brin has donated more than $1 billion to the “University of Maryland School of Medicine” to fund research on “Parkinson’s Disease”. It is the institute where his mother received treatment for the disease.
14. As of February 2023’s Bloomberg Index, Sergey Brin is the 11th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of around $83 billion.
15. Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin was born in Moscow, Russia. His parents emigrated to the united states when he was about six years old. Brin’s father, Michael Brin, is a mathematician and an economist. His mother, Eugenia Brin, is a researcher at NASA.
