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About Larry Page

Larry Page is a famous US Computer scientist & Internet Entrepreneur.


Currently, Page is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc.
Best known as the cofounder of Google, alongside with Sergey Brin.
Later he became CEO of Google and board member of Google. According
to Forbes Magazine, he currently holds the 12th richest person ranking
positon in the world.
Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational corporation
headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a
corporate restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and became
the parent company of Google and several former Google
companies. Larry Page current is the CEO of this multinational
Corporation
Early Life

Page was born in East Lansing, Michigan, United States (U.S.)


Page attended the Okemos Montessori School in Okemos, Michigan from 1975
to 1979, and graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991.
He holds Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the
University of Michigan with honors and a Master of Science in
computer science from Stanford University
In 1998, Page founded Google, Inc. with Brin.
On April 4, 2011, Page officially became the chief executive of
Google.
The Ups, Downs and turning points of His Career

Larry page managed to download the entire Web and by examining the
links
Between the pages he saw the world’s information in an entirely new
way.
He is the Steve Jobs of Google. Like Jobs, Page has always been
his company’s true visionary and driving force.
As he enters his fourth year in charge of Google again, the company is
in fantastic shape.
“Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.” - Larry Page
Inner Keys to Success

BE AN EDUCATED RISK-TAKER:
Larry Page was an educated risk-taker. When he and Sergey first started out their
company,
They maxed out their credit cards and their friends and families credit cards to
Buy bandwidth for the company.
GO BACKTO YOUR ROOTS, WHAT DID YOU ENJOYASA KID:
Growing up in a family obsessed with computers, he was surrounded by science
magazines
and computers which Larry was constantly drawn to.

YOU’RE FEELINGS CREATE REALITY, START “FEELING SUCCESS”:


Larry Page understand that feelings create reality. Google has been named the top place in
the
world to work because of unusual business practices of creating a fun and exciting
environment.
His beliefs that maximizing an employee’s work satisfaction will
aid them in prospering within the company.
Fear of failure should not stop anyone.” - Larry Page
His approach towards work

Page is very engaged in what challenges people face Page insisted on


being involved in every hire at Google.
Page and his recruiters continue to seek thousands of bright young
Graduates to join Google, he is quietly cutting or reassigning
Middle management and bureaucracy.

Page is working to cultivate a faster, more nimble management


Approach at Google, which employs 26,000 people around the world.
Page is also looking to encourage faster decisions and openness.
Top executives are said to sit around together for one day a week for
Collaboration and quick choices

“Build your team, avoid bureaucracy” -Larry Page


Personality

Larry Page, CE O and co-founder of Google, is extremely smart and


Analyzes nearly every situation. He is so introverted. Page is an
extremely Creative individual, as evidenced by his creation of Google.
He would exhibit a highly conscientious person, as well as emotionally stable.
Based on many of the things mentioned, the Google entrepreneur would fit
the Category of an INTP (Introvert, Intuition, Thinking, and Perceiving)
individual.
He is also action motivated, goal oriented most importantly business minded
Person.

"Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it


universally accessible and useful.” –Larry Page
Management Style
Page eventually wrote down his management style:
Don't delegate: Do everything you can yourself to make things go faster.
Don't get in the way if you’re not adding value. Let the people actually doing
the work talk to each other while you go do something else.
Don't be b ureaucrat.

Ideas are more important than age. Just because someone is junior doesn't mean
they don't deserve respect and cooperation.

Worst thing you can do is stop someone from doing something by
saying, “No. Period.” If you say no, you have to help them find a better way to
get it done.
•He has a clear vision and strategy for the management team. He
helps
• his employees with career development.
Leadership Style

Larry Page has a very open and equal way of leading, making him a
Democratic leader. Larry Page urges his employees to believe in crazy
ideas and is accepting to all ideas.
Larry strives to work quickly and encourages faster decisions to be
made.
Since Larry is introvert, he is more likely to hear and include other
people’s creative ideas. Introverts are said to be the best leaders for
proactive employees.
Larry tries his best to avoid an autocratic way of leading by building his
team to gather more insight and ideas to help Google grow.

“If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long
time ago and ended up on vacation.”– Larry Page
Awards/Milestones/Achievements

List of his Awards /Milestones/Wealth accumulated :


In 2002, Page was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for
Tomorrow.
In 2003, honorary MBA from IE Business School.
In 2004, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. And
"Persons of the Week" by ABCWorld News Tonight.
In 2005, Page were elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
In 2009, Page received an honorary doctorate from the University of
Michigan
In 2019, he was ranked 12th on the Forbes list of billionaires and as the 11th
richest person in the United States.
• of 2019, Page's personal wealth is estimated to be US$56.4billion
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