• Send Us A Tip
  • Calling all Tech Writers
  • Advertise
Friday, July 11, 2025
  • Login
TechStory
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to
No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to
No Result
View All Result
TechStory
No Result
View All Result
Home Inspiration

Sergey Brin – Innovation Unparalleled With A Moral Code !

by Aravind R Menon
August 21, 2016
in Inspiration
Reading Time: 4 mins read
0
Sergey Brin – Innovation Unparalleled With A Moral Code !

Source: Founders of Google and Moment Mag

TwitterWhatsappLinkedin

Sergey Brin is too young to remember the day, in the summer of 1977, when his father came home and announced that it was time for the family to emigrate from the U.S.S.R. The family had to face hardships, social ostracisation, poverty and peril during this tough time, before they found stability in the U.S.

You might also like

Future-Ready Benefits of Hiring a MERN Stack Development Company

The Most Valuable AI Startups of 2025

A Record 15 Individuals have made it into Forbes’ 2025 World’s Billionaires List

Source: Founders of Google and Moment Mag
Source: Founders of Google and Moment Mag

The Brins’ story provides the first clues to the origins of Sergey Brin’s entrepreneurial instincts that is today part of urban legend. Trim and boyishly handsome, with low sloping shoulders that give him a perpetually relaxed appearance, Sergey Brin bounces around the office with apparently endless energy. He has dark hair, penetrating eyes and a puckish sense of humor that often catches people off guard. A typical workday finds him in jeans, sneakers and a fitted black T-shirt, though his casual manner belies a serious, even aggressive sense of purpose.

Early Life

Sergey Brin attended elementary school at Paint Branch Montessori School in Maryland, where he fell in love with the system that allowed him to grow at his own pace. The Montessori style allowed him to pick his own puzzles and topics of interest and this fueled the curiosity in him. Moreover, he loved mathematics. Numbers fascinated him like nothing ever had and his father, a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Maryland, fed his appetite. He received his Bachelors in Computer Science in 1993 and from then on there was no looking back.  What came next is Google legend.

The Legend is Born

In the spring of 1995, during a prospective student weekend, Brin met an opinionated computer science student from the University of Michigan named Larry Page. The duo talked and argued over the course of two days, each finding the other cocky and obnoxious. They also formed an instant connection, relishing the intellectual combat. But after spending time together, they “became intellectual soul-mates and close friends. Together, the pair authored a paper titled “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”. This formed the cornerstone of what is today the biggest name in computers. The concept of Google had been born.

Source: Business Insider
Source: Business Insider

Google

As a research project at Stanford University, Sergey Brin and Larry Page soon began working on ways to harness information on the World Wide Web. They hit upon the idea of using the links between web pages to rank their relative importance. Borrowing from academia the concept of citations in research papers as a measure of topicality and value, he and Brin applied that thinking to the Web: if one page linked to another, it was in effect “citing” or casting a vote for that page. The more votes a page had, the more valuable it was.

Brin and Page created a search engine that listed results according to the popularity of the pages, after concluding that the most popular result would often be the most useful. They called the search engine Google after the mathematical term “googol,” which is a 1 followed by 100 zeros, to reflect their mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the Web.

The Journey

No one was interested. No one cared about search. But Sergey and Larry knew they were on to something. Soliciting funds from faculty members, family and friends, Sergey and Larry scraped together enough to buy some servers and rent that famous garage in Menlo Park. Their venture quickly bore fruit: After viewing a quick demo, Sun Microsystems cofounder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a $100,000 cheque.

Headquartered in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, Google held its initial public offering in August 2004, making Sergy Brin and Larry Page billionaires. In 2006, Google purchased the most popular website for user-submitted streaming videos, YouTube, for $1.65 billion in stock. On August 10, 2015, Brin and Page announced that Google and its divisions were being restructured under the umbrella of a new parent company called Alphabet, with Brin and Page serving as Alphabet’s respective president and CEO.

Google has since become the world’s most popular search engine, receiving an average of 5.9 billion searches per day in 2013.

Value that makes the Man

Sergey Brin has a code of conduct. The Ten Commandments it’s not, but Google does operate with a moral code that is derived from the man’s belief that without values and ethics, there is no point, however great the achievement. Among his favourite are “Don’t Be Evil.” The maxim is supposed to guide behavior at all levels of the company. One malevolent practice, in Google’s view, is tampering with or otherwise censoring the list of results produced by a Google search.

Source: Forbes
Source: Forbes

Another Google Mantra is “Have healthy disregard for the impossible.”  This a value that has led Google to be the foremost innovator of the century, turning audacious ideas into tangible products that have revolutionized the way we live our lives.

But Brin’s favourite is “Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.” This is precisely what he did with Google. Today, Google is part of every man’s everyday life. Just imagine, what would you have done if Sergey Brin hadn’t dedicated the talented brains at his disposal to develop Google Maps. This is the spirit that Google embodies, and as the President and director of special projects of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, we can be sure that there is a lot more to come.

Tags: Alphabet Inc.EthicsGoogleinspirationLarry PageSergey Brin
Tweet54SendShare15
Previous Post

News This Week You Need to Remember !

Next Post

Exceptional Employees Are Irreplaceable. How Can You Be One?

Aravind R Menon

I like to think of myself as a collector of stories. I love meeting new people and trying new things.

Recommended For You

Future-Ready Benefits of Hiring a MERN Stack Development Company

by Rohan Mathawan
June 17, 2025 - Updated On June 18, 2025
0
Future-Ready Benefits of Hiring a MERN Stack Development Company

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses demand web applications that are modern, scalable, and high-performing. To meet this, many companies are turning to full-stack JavaScript frameworks, especially MERN...

Read more

The Most Valuable AI Startups of 2025

by Thomas Babychan
May 31, 2025
0
Cutting-Edge AI: 10 Game-Changing AI Tools of the Week

The artificial intelligence sector has seen remarkable growth in recent years. In 2025, several startups have reached multi-billion-dollar valuations, showing strong investor interest and market confidence. These companies...

Read more

A Record 15 Individuals have made it into Forbes’ 2025 World’s Billionaires List

by Anochie Esther
April 2, 2025
0
Forbes

Eight years ago, the ultra-elite group of people with net worths exceeding $100 billion did not exist. Today, a record 15 individuals have made it into Forbes’ 2025...

Read more
Next Post
Exceptional Employees Are Irreplaceable. How Can You Be One?

Exceptional Employees Are Irreplaceable. How Can You Be One?

Please login to join discussion

Techstory

Tech and Business News from around the world. Follow along for latest in the world of Tech, AI, Crypto, EVs, Business Personalities and more.
reach us at [email protected]

Advertise With Us

Reach out at - [email protected]

BROWSE BY TAG

#Crypto #howto 2024 acquisition AI amazon Apple bitcoin Business China cryptocurrency e-commerce electric vehicles Elon Musk Ethereum facebook flipkart funding Gaming Google India Instagram Investment ios iPhone IPO Market Markets Meta Microsoft News NFT samsung Social Media SpaceX startup startups tech technology Tesla TikTok trend trending twitter US

© 2024 Techstory.in

No Result
View All Result
  • News
  • Crypto
  • Gadgets
  • Memes
  • Gaming
  • Cars
  • AI
  • Startups
  • Markets
  • How to

© 2024 Techstory.in

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Are you sure want to unlock this post?
Unlock left : 0
Are you sure want to cancel subscription?