Larry Page is a prominent American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc.
Larry Page’s net worth is estimated to be between $324 billion and $336 billion, making him the second-richest person in the world. His massive fortune is primarily driven by his equity stake in Alphabet Inc. (the parent company of Google), which recently surged following strong artificial intelligence and cloud revenue reports
The majority of Page’s fortune is derived from his stake in Alphabet, the parent company of Google, the world’s largest search engine, according to Net Market Share. The billionaire owns Class B and C shares, giving him about 6% of the business, according to its 2025 proxy and an April 2022 company filing.
Larry Page is an American computer scientist and billionaire entrepreneur best known for co-founding Google alongside Sergey Brin in 1998. He is currently the second-wealthiest person in the world.
Key Background
Born on March 26, 1973, Page attended the Okemos Montessori School in Michigan and graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991. He credits his Montessori education for fostering his self-motivation and willingness to question rules.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) with honors in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995. During his time there, he built an inkjet printer out of Lego bricks and served on the university’s solar car team.
He created the PageRank algorithm and co-founded Google with Sergey Brin in 1998.
in Lansing, Michigan, into an academically enriched environment both of his parents were computer science professors.He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and pursued his Ph.D. at Stanford University
While pursuing his PhD at Stanford, Page and fellow student Sergey Brin developed the “PageRank” algorithm, which calculated the relevance of a web page to the user’s query based in part on the number of other pages that linked to it. PageRank became the foundational technology of Google, which he and Brin started in 1998 with Page as the first CEO. From 2001 to 2011, Page was president of products, then resumed responsibility for day-to-day operations as CEO.
Outside of Google, Larry Page’s other lines of business span deep-tech, biotechnology, and personal investments. While stepping down from daily management, he remains a controlling shareholder of Alphabet Inc.
His diversified post-Google portfolio features several key industries:
He founded Calico (California Life Company), a subsidiary focused on combating aging, age-related diseases, and advancing human longevity.
Page was a massive financier of the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) revolution. He founded or funded companies like Opener (BlackFly) and Kitty Hawk, which spun out its autonomous air-taxi design into Wisk Aero (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing).
Through angel investments, he has backed ventures tackling resource extraction in space (e.g., Planetary Resources
Page is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the Marconi Prize, given to those who achieve advances in communications and information technology for the social, economic and cultural development of all humanity.
