Before They Were Stars
The Brains Behind the Operations: Tech Nerds, Before They Were Stars!
You're using one now to click through this gallery, but did you ever wonder about the history of the computer? Or the iPod, or Twitter? Snakkle looks back at some of America's most influential tech nerds—spitball targets who became business magnates. Remember, bullies, one day those nerds will run the world! By Brittany Carson
Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library, Courtesy Google
Sergey Brin, cofounder of Google
Sergey Brin immigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union when he was 6 years old and graduated from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland. Brin went on to study at Stanford, where he met Larry Page: It was a match made in techie heaven. Working on a joint thesis with Page, Brin developed the data-mining system while Page focused on the concept of citations and their importance. Project BackRub, as it was known, became Google (a misspelling of the word “googol”).
Did you know: The Google motto is “Don’t be evil,” which refers to the idea that you don’t have to be evil to make money.
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