Brin Sergei Mikhailovich

Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin is the founder and president of technology at Google.

Biography, career

Sergey Brin was born in Moscow in 1974. His father is a former researcher at the Central Economic and Mathematical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences and candidate of physical and mathematical sciences Mikhail Izrailevich Brin (born 1948), his mother is Evgenia (maiden name - Krasnokutskaya). In 1979, the Brin family moved from Moscow to the United States of America. Sergei's father became a teacher at the University of Maryland, where he still works, and his mother got a job as a specialist at NASA.

Sergey Brin graduated with honors from the University of Maryland, where he studied mathematics and computer science. He received a scholarship from the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. The main area of ​ ​ scientific research of Sergey was technology for collecting data from unstructured sources, large bodies of texts and scientific data. He is the author of dozens of publications in leading American academic journals, and also periodically speaks at various national and international scientific, business and technological forums. In preparation for his PhD at Stanford, Breen met Larry Page, and they founded Google together in 1998.

On September 14, 1997, the domain was registered google.com.

In 2004, Sergey Brin was included in the list of billionaires of Forbes magazine.

2020

Investing in food tech startup Mosa Meat

On December 7, 2020, Mosa Meat announced the closure of the Series B financing round, as a result of which the startup attracted a total of 63 million euros in investments. Investors included Target Global as well as Mitsubishi Corporation, Blue Horizon Ventures, ArcTern Ventures and Rubio Impact Ventures. Read more here.

Sergey Brin has a secret rapid response team from former special forces

The Daily Beast^[1] found out that Google co-founder Sergei Brin owns Global Support and Development, which sends former military personnel to disaster zones around the world on the entrepreneur's superyacht. Now the organization is helping with testing for COVID-19 in California^[2].

One of the founders of Google, Sergei Brin, turned out to be the only donor to the GSD organization, according to The Daily Beast. GSD operates as a rapid response team. Almost half of the organization is made up of the former military. As a transport, GSD uses Brin's personal yacht Dragonfly.

The organization helps victims of natural disasters by applying high-tech solutions, follows from the report of the publication. The GSD is led by former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Grant Dawson. He worked for Brin's personal security team for several years.

According to The Daily Beast, the idea for GSD came up in 2015. As Dragonfly passed the island nation of Vanuatu, which was hit by Cyclone Pam, the captain of the yacht asked Breen if it was possible to somehow help the victims. The entrepreneur contacted Dawson.

Dawson assembled a small team - two Air Force rescuers and two SEAL orderlies (the main tactical unit of the United States Navy Special Operations Force). "We raided all the Home Depot and pharmacies that we could find, and about 18 hours later announced the launch," he recalls.

GSD has 20 full-time employees and about 100 contractors. The organization has access to technology, including drones and sonar maps. Since 2015, the team has assisted in several natural disasters, including hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

Now GSD organizes testing on coronavirus c. California The team is going to conduct more than 8 thousand analyzes in local institutions for the care of elderly people.

"GSD has provided operational support to the first two testing centers in California and is also assisting in planning and logistics to other centers that have opened statewide," the organization's website states.

2019

Allegations of harassment and sex without obligation

At the end of August 2019, the post of a former Google employee, published in Medium, again raised the topic of harassment in the workplace and sex without obligations, which Google bosses allowed themselves. Read more here.

Leaving Alphabet management

On December 3, 2019, Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced their resignation from the positions of CEO and President of Alphabet, respectively. At the same time, the founders of Google will remain on the board of directors and shareholders of the holding, which they previously headed.

Under the reorganization, which was announced in early December 2019, Alphabet's presidency has been abolished and Google chief Sundar Pichai has been appointed CEO.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin quit their posts but will be involved in Google life

Page and Brin noted in a joint statement that it was "time to simplify the management structure" of Alphabet. They also stressed that "Alphabet and Google no longer need two CEOs and a president." Pichai, in turn, promised that the change in structure would not affect the work of the teams.

I will continue to pay great attention to Google and the work we are doing to expand the boundaries of technology and create a "more useful Google" for everyone, he said.

In addition, we plan to continue to consult Sundar regularly, particularly on issues we are passionate about, "Page and Brin said.

As the Associated Press notes, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were absent from the company's events for the last year before leaving Alphabet's leadership posts, the company was actually represented by Pichai. So, it was the CEO of Google who spoke at shareholder meetings and as a representative of Alphabet at a hearing in the US Congress.

According to CNBC, the decision of Google's founders to resign as Alphabet executives will not affect Google's shareholder structure. At the time of publication of the material, Page and Brin jointly controlled more than 50% of the vote in the holding - Brin had 25.2% of the vote, and Page 26.1%.^[3]

2023: Eating hallucinogenic mushrooms

GoogleCo-founder Sergey Brin allegedly uses hallucinogenic mushrooms, legal only in Colorado and Oregon. Read more here.

State

2015: $32.8 billion - Forbes

On August 5, 2015, the authoritative magazine Forbes published a rating of the most affluent industry figures. information technology Sergei Brin's fortune was estimated at $32.8 billion. More. here

2016: $38.2 billion - Forbes

In August 2016, Forbes magazine presented a rating of the richest businessmen in the field of information technology (IT). Sergei Brin's fortune was estimated at $38.2 billion. Read more here.

2020: $89bn - Forbes

In April 2021, Forbes magazine presented an updated annual ranking of the richest people on the planet. Among the largest IT billionaires was the founder of Google Sergey Brin with a fortune of $89 billion. Read more here.

Quotes, interviews

• Reporting on the arrival of Sergei Brin in Moscow, NTV
• I am very lucky in life, an interview with the newspaper "Vedomosti"

Other activities, hobbies

In 2011, Sergey Brin intends to go into space

In 2011, Brin intends to go into space on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. In 2008, the co-founder of Google became the first participant in the Orbital Mission Explorers Circle and invested $5 million in Space Adventures with the condition that this money be credited as an advance for his flight into space after 3 years. In total, Brin will pay about $35 million for this exotic journey. Later Roskosmos he announced the impossibility of such a trip.

Sergey Brin maintains his own blog on the Blogger platform (owned by Google) at too.blogspot.com.

Family

2007: Married bioengineer Anna Wodrzycki

In 2007, 33-year-old Sergei Brin married bioengineer Anne Wojcicki, who at one time rented out the garage to young businessmen just starting the Google path. The wedding took place in early May 2007 in the strictest secrecy in the Bahamas. In December 2008, Sergei and Anna had a son.

Wife of Sergey Brin Anna Wojcicki

Anne Wodzycki graduated from Yale University in 1996, having learned to be a biologist. Later she became a co-owner of 23andMe, offering anyone for $399 to take a genetic test for susceptibility to genetic diseases. The test is performed on saliva. Sergei Brin also used the services of his wife's company, as a result of which it turned out that he had a predisposition to Parkinson's disease. Immediately after the wedding, Brin invested $3.9 million in his wife's company.

2021: Filing for divorce from Nicole Shanahan over her affair with Ilan Musk

In the fall of 2021, Elon Musk entered into a short love affair with the wife of Sergei Brin, which prompted the co-founder of Google to file for divorce in early 2022 and ended the long friendship of billionaires. This newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) became known at the end of July 2022 from informed sources. At the time of publication, Musk is the richest businessman in the world according to Forbes, whose fortune is estimated at $253.4 billion, and Brin takes 10th place with a fortune of $89.9 billion.

Elon Musk in the fall of 2021 briefly met with the wife of Google co-founder Sergei Brin, Nicole Shanahan, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing sources. According to the publication, their love affairs arose in early December 2021, after meeting at the Art Basel Art Festival in Miami. At that time, Brin and his wife broke up, but continued to live together. Musk's brief affair with Shanahan was the reason Brin filed for divorce. The couple's desire to disperse became known in June 2022.

Filing for divorce from Nicole Shanahan

But the application was filed back in January 2022, the WSJ clarified, citing court documents. In them, the couple mentioned irreconcilable differences. The documents were sent to court weeks after Breen learned of his wife's affair with Musk, sources told the WSJ. Brin and Shanahan already had problems in their relationship by that time, the newspaper's interlocutors added. As a result of the divorce, Shanahan wants to receive $1 billion. An agreement has not yet been reached, and, according to the publication, Brin's side insists that Shanahan has requested much more than she is entitled to under the marriage contract.

Tensions have been building between Musk and Brin and their teams since early 2022, according to people familiar with the matter. Breen ordered his financial advisers to sell his personal investments in Musk's companies. At the end of July 2022, it was not possible to find out how big these investments were and whether any sales were made.

Sergey Brin has lived with his wife since 2018, they have a common child. Breen's previous marriage to 23andMe biotech company founder Anna Wojrzytski ended in 2015. In 2021, after the divorce, Wojrzytski became a billionaire when her company went public.^[4]

2022: Divorce from Nicole Shanahan

On June 18, 2022, Google co-founder Sergei Brin began divorce proceedings after three years of family life. The divorce was caused by irreconcilable differences in marriage.

Sergei Brin, who ranks sixth on the list of the richest people in the world with a fortune of $94 billion as of to data Bloomberg June 2022, filed for divorce from his wife Nicole Shanahan in early January 2022, according to court documents.

Google co-founder Sergei Brin divorces

Breen married Nicole Shanahan, 34, in 2019. Before her marriage, Bryn and Shanahan dated for about three years. Breen, when filing for divorce, cited irreconcilable differences in the marriage, noting that the couple owns a joint property that will be divided during the trial.

Prior to Nicole Shanahan, Sergey Brin was married to co-founder and CEO of the genetic firm 23andMe Anna Wojcicki. The couple were married from 2007 to 2015 and have a 13-year-old son, Benji, and an 11-year-old daughter, Chloe. The spouses began to have conflicts when Brin started an affair with a Google employee. Breen's romance later ended, but he never returned to the family.

Sideman & Bancroft partner Monica Mazzei said that Brin and Shanahan have a prenuptial agreement, since their relationship began after Brin became a billionaire. The agency clarified that the divorce of another businessman from the Top 10 richest people in the world occurred a year after Bill Gates and Melinda French announced the termination of their marriage, and about three years after the divorce of Jeff Bezos and Mackenzie Scott.

According to the Bloomberg billionaires index, the fortune of Russian-American Internet entrepreneur Sergei Brin is estimated at $94 billion, which Brin received mainly from a stake in Google. Breen founded the company with Larry Page in 1998. Both left Google in 2019, however, still remain on the board and are considered controlling shareholders.^[5]

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