Age, Biography, and Wiki
- Full Name: Sergey Mikhailovich Brin
- Date of Birth: August 21, 1973
- Age (as of June 2025): 51 years old
- Place of Birth: Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia)
- Nationality: American
Sergey Brin is a renowned computer scientist and businessman best known for co-founding Google with Larry Page. He immigrated to the United States at age six and later became a leading innovator in the tech industry. Brin served as president of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down in 2019, but remains a controlling shareholder and board member.
| Occupation | Computer Programmer |
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| Date of Birth | 21 August 1973 |
| Age | 51 Years |
| Birth Place | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Horoscope | Leo |
| Country | Russia |
Height, Weight & Measurements
- Height: Not officially listed, but commonly reported as approximately 5'8" (173 cm)
- Weight: Not publicly disclosed
- Measurements: Not available
Physical details about Sergey Brin are not widely publicized, as he maintains a relatively private personal life compared to his professional stature.
Brin is a backer of LTA Research & Exploration LLC, an airship maker company. In October 2023, LTA's 124-meter long flagship, Pathfinder 1, became the largest airship since the Hindenburg to receive clearance for flight testing, permitted over the boundaries of Moffett Field and neighboring Palo Alto Airport’s airspaces, at a height of up to 460 meters.
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Dating & Relationship Status
As of 2025, Sergey Brin is not known to be publicly dating anyone. He was previously married to Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe, with whom he has two children. The couple divorced in 2015. Brin generally keeps his personal relationships out of the public eye.
Brin immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union at the age of six. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Maryland, College Park, following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics as well as computer science. After graduation, in September 1993, he enrolled in Stanford University to acquire a PhD in computer science. There he met Page, with whom he built a web search engine. The program became popular at Stanford, and he discontinued his PhD studies to start Google in Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park.
The Brin family lived in a three-room apartment in central Moscow, which they also shared with Sergey's paternal grandmother. In 1977, after his father returned from a mathematics conference in Warsaw, Poland, Mikhail Brin announced that it was time for the family to emigrate. They formally applied for their exit visa in September 1978, and as a result, his father was "promptly fired". For related reasons, his mother had to leave her job. For the next eight months, without any steady income, they were forced to take on temporary jobs as they waited, afraid their request would be denied as it was for many refuseniks. In May 1979, they were granted their official exit visas and were allowed to leave the country.
Brin attended elementary school at Paint Branch Montessori School in Adelphi, Maryland, but he received further education at home; his father, a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Maryland, encouraged him to learn mathematics and his family helped him retain his Russian-language skills. He attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School. In September 1990, Brin enrolled in the University of Maryland, where he received his Bachelor of Science from the Department of Computer Science in 1993 with honors in computer science and mathematics at the age of 19. In 1993, he interned at Wolfram Research, the developers of Mathematica.
In May 2007, Brin married biotech analyst and entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki in the Bahamas. They had a son in late 2008 and a daughter in late 2011. In August 2013, it was announced that Brin and his wife were living separately after Brin had an extramarital affair with a Google Glass colleague. In June 2015, Brin and Wojcicki finalized their divorce.
Brin's mother, Eugenia, has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 2008, he decided to make a donation to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where his mother has received treatment. According to Forbes, Brin has donated over $1 billion to fund research on the disease.
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| Husband | Anne Wojcicki (m. 2007-2015) Nicole Shanahan (m. 2018-2023) |
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Net Worth and Salary
- Estimated Net Worth 2025:
- $142 billion (Bloomberg Billionaires Index, May 2025)
- Ranked #8–#10 richest person globally (varies by source)
- Income Estimations (fictional, based on net worth increase):
- Annual: $28–38 billion (varies by calculation method)
- Monthly: ~$2.3–3.2 billion
- Weekly: ~$538–738 million
- Daily: ~$108–147 million
Brin’s primary wealth stems from his significant holdings in Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google.
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (born August 21, 1973) is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google with Larry Page. He was the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019. He and Page remain at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling shareholders and board members. As of May 2025, Brin is the tenth richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $142 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and 132.2 billion, according to Forbes, making him the eighth-richest person in the world.
Brin and Page jointly own a customized Boeing 767–200 and a Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet, and pay $1.3 million a year to house them and two Gulfstream V jets owned by Google executives at Moffett Federal Airfield. The aircraft has scientific equipment installed by NASA to allow experimental data to be collected in flight.
Career, Business, and Investments
- Co-founder of Google (1998): Developed the world’s leading search engine with Larry Page.
- President of Alphabet Inc. (2015–2019): Led Google’s parent company before stepping down to become a controlling shareholder and board member.
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): Came out of retirement in 2023 to lead Alphabet’s push into advanced AI technologies.
- Other Ventures: Involved in various technology and philanthropic investments, including space exploration (via Planetary Ventures), biotechnology, and AI research.
The Brin family lived in Vienna and Paris while Mikhail Brin secured a teaching position at the University of Maryland with help from Anatole Katok. During this time, the Brin family received support and assistance from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. They arrived in the United States on October 25, 1979.
Page and Brin used Page's basic HTML programming skills to set up a simple search page for users, as they did not have a web page developer to create anything visually elaborate. They also began using any computer part they could find to assemble the necessary computing power to handle searches by multiple users. As their search engine grew in popularity among Stanford users, it required additional servers to process the queries. In August 1996, the initial version of Google was made available on the Stanford Web site.
"In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg introduced Europe to the mechanical printing press, printing Bibles for mass consumption. The technology allowed for books and manuscripts—originally replicated by hand—to be printed at a much faster rate, thus spreading knowledge and helping to usher in the European Renaissance... Google has done a similar job."
On November 7, 2018, he married Nicole Shanahan, a legal tech founder. They have a daughter, born in late 2018. Brin and Shanahan separated on December 15, 2021, and Brin filed for divorce on January 4, 2022. In summer 2023, the divorce was finalized. The Wall Street Journal reported that a reason for the breakup was a "brief affair" in 2021 between Shanahan and Elon Musk, but these allegations have been denied and the article has since been retracted.
* In 2003, both Brin and Page received an honorary MBA from IE Business School "for embodying the entrepreneurial spirit and lending momentum to the creation of new businesses...".
Social Network
- Official Social Media Presence:
- Sergey Brin does not maintain public personal social media accounts.
- Professional Presence:
- Influence primarily through public appearances, interviews, and leadership at Alphabet Inc.
- Recognized globally as a thought leader in technology and innovation.
The comparison was also noted by the authors of The Google Story: "Not since Gutenberg... has any new invention empowered individuals, and transformed access to information, as profoundly as Google." Also, not long after the two "cooked up their new engine for web searches, they began thinking about information that was at the time beyond the web," such as digitizing books and expanding health information.
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree:
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Majored in Mathematics and Computer Science
- Graduate Studies:
- Stanford University (PhD studies in Computer Science, did not complete)
Brin’s academic background laid the foundation for his groundbreaking work in search algorithms and artificial intelligence.
Brin began his graduate study in computer science at Stanford University on a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation, receiving an M.S. in computer science in 1995. As of 2008, he was on leave from his PhD studies at Stanford.
