The Brin family lived in Vienna and Paris while Mikhail Brin secured a teaching position at the University of Maryland with help from Anatole Katok. In May 1979, they were granted their official exit visas and were allowed to leave the country. For the next eight months, without any steady income, they were forced to take on temporary jobs as they waited, afraid their request would be denied as it was for many refuseniks. For related reasons, his mother had to leave her job. They formally applied for their exit visa in September 1978, and as a result, his father was "promptly fired". In 1977, after his father returned from a mathematics conference in Warsaw, Poland, Mikhail Brin announced that it was time for the family to emigrate. The Brin family lived in a three-room apartment in central Moscow, which they also shared with Sergey's paternal grandmother. His father is a retired mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, and his mother a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. īrin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow in the Soviet Union, to Russian Jewish parents, Mikhail and Eugenia Brin, both graduates of Moscow State University (MSU). The program became popular at Stanford, and they suspended their PhD studies to start up Google in Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park. There he met Page, with whom he built a web search engine. After graduation, he enrolled in Stanford University to acquire a PhD in computer science. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Maryland, College Park, following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, as well as computer science. īrin immigrated to the United States with his family from the Soviet Union at the age of six.
As of September 2022, Brin is the 8th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $94 billion.
He and Page remain at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling shareholders, board members, and employees. Brin was the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019. Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин born August 21, 1973) is an American business magnate, computer scientist, and internet entrepreneur.
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