5. SERGEY BRIN
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Title: Cofounder and president, Alphabet | Country: US
Age: 42
With topmost talent and plenty of resources at their disposal, his
company has already made automated homes and self-driving cars a
reality. Brin, a child immigrant from Moscow, connected with Larry Page
at Stanford University, where they were each pursuing a Ph.D. Three
years later, they founded Google. Today, Brin and Page have amassed
personal fortunes of $38 billion and $42 billion, respectively. The tech
conglomerate, as a whole, generated $66 billion in sales in 2014.
4. MARK ZUCKERBERG
Title: Founder and CEO, Facebook | Country: US | Age: 31
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The leader of the world’s largest social network had a prosperous year.
It will finally sell its first consumer headset, Oculus Rift, starting early
next year. Facebook also announced for the first time that its site had
a billion users in a single day and 8 billion daily video views, double
the number it reported in April. The company’s stock is up about 40%
through November 2015, and as a result, Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth
has soared to $47.6 billion.
3. LARRY PAGE
Title: Cofounder and CEO, Alphabet | Country: US | Age: 42
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Wenig
SELECT LIVING
Larry Page made some major moves this year, starting with a massive
overhaul of Google’s business structure in August. Previously the
chief executive of Google, Page moved up to helm Alphabet as CEO,
leaving company veteran Sundar Pichai in his spot. Page cofounded
Google with Sergey Brin, who will help run Alphabet as president, and
they’ve earned fortunes of $42 billion and $38 billion respectively.
The pair grew the company from a Ph.D project at Stanford into one
of the biggest and farthest-reaching tech companies in the world. In
addition to its ubiquitous search engine, the company has its hands in
everything from home automation and self-driving cars to prolonging
human life.
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