Sergey Brin Yearbook Photo Shows Google Co-Founder Before He Was A Billionaire

Before they were billionaires, most billionaires were just people who looked dorky in yearbook photos. Google co-founder Sergey Brin is no exception.

The photo below (courtesy of Snakkle) was taken in 1990, during what would be Brin's last year at Eleanor Roosevelt High School. As reported in Moment Magazine, Brin, who was born in Russia, went straight to the University of Maryland after his junior year, where he studied computer science and mathematics. He later enrolled at Stanford where he is currently on leave from his PhD studies, writes Business Week.

It was during his doctoral studies at Stanford that Brin met Larry Page. As part of a research project, the two created a search engine that listed results in order of popularity. They named it Google, which is the common spelling of googol, a math term for the number one followed by 100 zeros. The huge number reflected their mission to organize everything on the web, reports Biography.com.

Brin and Page would go on to officially launch Google Inc. in 1998. Today, Google is the number-one search engine in the United States, where it commands over 65 percent of the search market share, according to a recent report by comScore. And the geeky kid in that picture? He's worth $16.7 billion.

For more great photos of tech titans before they were billionaires, click over to Snakkle.

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Comments

[Conservative666]

04:50 PM on 12/14/2011

They should take the yearbooks of famous people and look for the ones with "good" pictures and see how those people turned out.

[jflorish]

01:25 AM on 12/14/2011

They definitely came along at the right time. I remember everyone using Yahoo and Webcrawler, and even lycos .... all plastered with ads, then Google came along and it all changed quickly.

[crayola 08b]

06:40 PM on 12/13/2011

i'd tap that.

[kranmar]

02:59 PM on 12/13/2011

Hope this has finally paid off and he got some.

[ariuszme]

02:14 PM on 12/13/2011

Google, who claims to be a "green" company, top 3 execs at google have 8 private jets between them

http://www.businessinsider.com/wait-a-minute-the-top-3-google-execs-have-how-many-jets-2011-12

[JohnnyKong]

06:34 PM on 12/13/2011

It is green dude. They started at 20 jets and said by reducing their jets to 8, they would be cutting down on their carbon footprint. They also serve organic sushi farmed from sourced from local fish farms in Japan, which operates on 100% nuclear power and is imported through refrigerated cargo containers and served fresh the next day. So I don't know what you're talking about dude.

[KarateKid]

07:50 PM on 12/13/2011

And, given what has happened there, I'll bet the sushi is GLOWING.....

[chocolateandcheese]

01:16 AM on 12/14/2011

Nuclear power isn't "green", no matter what they're saying about it. Ask the Japanese, or the Russians who used to live around Chernobyl.

[jflorish]

01:24 AM on 12/14/2011

I would too if I were them.

[aphextwin07]

01:25 PM on 12/13/2011

michael... cera?