Background
You always hear stories about people who knew what they wanted to do with their life the second they started living. Larry Page was, and still is, one of those people. Since the tender age of 12, Page knew that one day he would start his own business. Of course, the elements contributing to this decision began at a much younger age than twelve. One would say that the love of inventing things ran in the family. Page's parents, Gloria and Carl Page, were two highly talented and intelligent computer science professors at the University of Michigan. While other six years olds were off playing sports and collecting baseball cards, Page took great interest in dismantling items in his house to "see how it worked". When asked about his childhood, Page commented "(there were) computers and Popular Science magazines everywhere". From this quote, it is quite evident that there was something unusual about Page from a very young age. Page moved on to become the first kid at his school to turn in an assignment from a word processor. One of his first inventions was an inkject printer made entirely from LEGO bricks. As Page grew older, he decided not to put his talent of inventing items to waste, and became interested in the world of business. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of State Michigan and a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University. He graduated from both schools with honours.
Page's success didn't stop here. He then met fellow PhD student, Sergey Brin. The two shared a visionary involving the number and and nature of backlinks and how they could be valuable to the information on a page. These ideas blossomed into a webpage prototype called BackRub, comprised of 10 million documents, with an untold number of links in between. After a year of extensive research and experimenting, a new, advanced search engine, titled Google, was born. And the rest is history!
As you can see, Larry Page knew his future before he knew anything else. He knew that one day he would become the owner of something successful. And gosh was he right.
Page's success didn't stop here. He then met fellow PhD student, Sergey Brin. The two shared a visionary involving the number and and nature of backlinks and how they could be valuable to the information on a page. These ideas blossomed into a webpage prototype called BackRub, comprised of 10 million documents, with an untold number of links in between. After a year of extensive research and experimenting, a new, advanced search engine, titled Google, was born. And the rest is history!
As you can see, Larry Page knew his future before he knew anything else. He knew that one day he would become the owner of something successful. And gosh was he right.