Sergey Brin's story about his rise to success
Mark Malseed has an interesting story about Sergey Brin, his family and their early life. You'll also find an insightful description of the office shared by Sergey and Larry at the Plex.
It is a nice story about Sergey Brin, how he rose to the top. He still uses a modest office in a small cubicle with Larry Page, co founder of Google without any doors or bodyguards as one will expect from a $150 Billion dollar company. Both Brin and Page shared this arrangement ever since they formed this idea in a garage, which also they bought recently. The author says Sergey Brin works with a lot of enthusiasm and moves around the Googleplex complex interacting with others. He wears simple, a jeans, sneakers, a T-shirt and has a good sense of humor. But behind this he is serious as ever when it comes to decision making as he and Larry Page have the last word on any projects started within the company.
His parents who emigrated from Russia are also highly educated, his father wouldn't have migrated to US if not for Russia's discrimination policy for Jews. He and his wife are extremely proud for their son's fame and career.
Eugenia Brin, Sergey's mom is still surprised with her son's Google success:
"It's hard to comprehend, really. He was a very capable child in math and computers, but we could have never imagined this. Google has saved more time for more people than anything else in the world."
In the end Google operates with a basic principle, a moral code: “Don’t Be Evil.” The maxim is supposed to guide behavior at all levels of the company. Eric Schmidt famously said when others asked for the clarification on what it really means, “Evil is whatever Sergey says is evil.”
Sergey Brin once spoke to a school in Israel, where 7 out of 10 students won in a Math competition. He praised the students and everyone clapped, but he replied, what happened to the other three. The students laughed but understood the meaning of it, don't get complacent which Brin's father taught him.
Nice story. We have seen so far, Google is not throttling other industries like other monopolies do, instead are innovating and growing constantly. Sergey Brin's Google will grow along with him with that motto and his parent's upbringing. The only problem about their son, especially his mom Genia, is not having a doctorate degree, they want to him to go back and finish his degree in Stanford.
