Entrepreneur, Businessperson, Computer Scientist, Internet Entrepreneur
Larry Page Net Worth
Larry Page is an American billionaire entrepreneur who has a net worth of $77 billion dollars. Larry Page is most notable for being the co-founder and former CEO of the web giant Alphabet which owns several subsidiary companies, including search engine Google. Larry Page created Google with Sergey Brin while they were both graduate students at Stanford.
Page was the chief executive officer of Google from 1997 until August 2001 (stepping down in favor of Eric Schmidt) then from April 2011 until July 2015 when he moved to become CEO of Alphabet Inc. (created to deliver “major advancements” as Google’s parent company), a post he held until December 4, 2019. He remains an Alphabet board member, employee, and controlling shareholder.
Creating Google built a large amount of wealth. Forbes placed him 10th in the list “Billionaires 2019”, and as in 2020, Page was the 13th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $69.4 billion, according to Forbes.
Larry Page is the co-creator and namesake of PageRank, a search ranking algorithm for Google. Page also received the Marconi Prize in 2004 with co-writer Brin
Larry Page’s net worth is $77 billion thanks to his roughly 6% stake in Alphabet. With super-voting shares, Larry and Sergey control 51% of the company’s voting rights. Larry has sold about $9 billion worth of shares of both Alphabet and Google since the company’s IPO in 2004. Page owns Class A, Class B, and Class C shares of Alphabet, including 20 million shares of Class C Alphabet stock. Larry’s family foundation, the Carl Victor Page Memorial Fund controls more than $1 billion worth of assets that have been donated by Larry.
