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• Bill Gates turned his fortune from He remains an Alphabet board member, Zuckerberg attended Harvard Together with Larry Page, he co-founded

software firm Microsoft into a employee, and controlling shareholder. University, where he launched Face- Google. Brin was the president of
diversified fortune; his focus has • He co-founded Google in book from his dormitory room in Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc.,
shifted to zero-carbon energy 1998 with fellow Stanford February 2004 with his roommates until stepping down from the role on
Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum,
December 3, 2019. He and Page remain
investing and philanthropy. Ph.D. student Sergey Brin. Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling
• On May 3, 2021, Bill and Melinda each • With Brin, Page invented Originally launched to select college shareholders, board members, and
announced on Twitter they were Google’s PageRank algorithm, campuses, the site expanded rapidly and employees. As of January 2022, Brin is
ending their marriage after 27 years. which powers the search engine. eventually beyond colleges, reaching one the 7th-richest person in the world, with

They will still co-chair the foundation. • Page was CEO until 2001, when billion users by 2012. Zuckerberg took an estimated net worth of $124 billion
• Gates, who co-founded Microsoft with Eric Schmidt took over, and the company public in May 2012 with
Paul Allen (d. 2018) in 1975, has trans- then from 2011 until 2015, when majority shares. In 2007, at age 23, he • Sergey Brin stepped down as pres-
became the world’s youngest self-made
ferred at least $5.7 billion worth of he became CEO of Google’s billionaire. As of January 2022, Zucker- ident of Alphabet, parent company

shares in public companies to Melinda. new parent company Alphabet. berg’s net worth was $128 billion,making of Google, in December 2019
• As of March 2020, when Gates stepped • He is a founding investor in space him the 6th-richest person in the world. but remains a controller share-
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down from the Microsoft board, he exploration company Planetary • He co-founded Google with Larry Page
owned about 1% of the software Resources and is also funding “flying • Facebook, the social network Zuck- in 1998 after the two met at Stanford
and computing company’s shares. car” startups Kitty Hawk and Opener. erberg runs, has been an infor- University while studying for advanced
• He has invested in dozens of companies 6) Mark Zuckerberg mation hub during the pandemic, degrees in computer science.
including Canadian National Railway but has come under scrutiny for • Google went public in 2004 and
spreading vaccine misinformation.
and AutoNation, and is one of the • In June 2021, a judge dismissed began trading as Alphabet, a newly
largest owners of farmland in the U.S. antitrust cases brought by states created parent company, in 2015.
• To date, Gates has donated and the federal government, which • Brin was absent from public
$35.8 billion worth of Microsoft could have forced Facebook to Alphabet events for much of
2019; he spent his time on Alpha-
stock to the Gates Foundation. sell off Instagram and WhatsApp.
• Zuckerberg started Face- bet’s moonshot research lab X.

5) Larry Page book at Harvard in 2004 at the 8) Steve Ballmer
Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, age of 19 for students to match
names with photos of classmates.
1973) is an American computer scien- • He took Facebook public in
tist and Internet entrepreneur. He is May 2012; he now owns about
best known as one of the co-founders 12% of the company’s stock.
of Google, along with Sergey Brin. Larry • In December 2015, Zuckerberg

Page was the chief executive officer Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged
of Google from 1997 until August 2001 media magnate, internet entrepre- to give away 99% of their Face-
(stepping down in favor of Eric Schmidt) neur, and philanthropist. He is known for book stake over their lifetimes.
then from April 2011 until July 2015 when co-founding the social media website 7) Sergey Brin

he moved to become CEO of Alphabet Facebook and its parent company
Inc. (created to deliver “major advance- Meta (formerly, Facebook, Inc.), of Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is an Amer-
ments” as Google’s parent company),a which he is the chairman, chief execu- ican business magnate, computer
post he held until December 4, 2019. tive officer, and controlling shareholder. scientist, and Internet entrepreneur.

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