Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. Brin served as the president of Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google, till Dec 2019. He, along with Larry Page, is still the controlling shareholders of Alphabet Inc.
Brin was a Soviet Citizen by birth but immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of six. He enrolled as a PhD student in computer science at Stanford University. There he met Page and co-founded Google with him.
Brin has invested in Tesla Motors. He is also an investor in Space Adventures, a Virginia based space tourism company. He was also involved in Google’s AI-driven car project and alternate energy projects.
ABC World News Tonight named him and Page “Persons of the Week” in 2004. World Economic Forum’s nominated him as one of its “Young Global Leaders” in 2005. Forbes called him and Page the fifth most powerful people in the world in November 2009.