Sergey Brin

When I started writing for Upside magazine in late 1999, my first assignment was a story about an obscure search startup with a weird name based in Mountain View, Calif. At that time, few people beyond the Stanford campus or Silicon Valley had ever heard ...  

Sergey Brin has a beard! We learned this from photos of a recent Google event. There's a theory out there that men who usually don't wear beards grow them when they want to reflect an inner change on the outside. What's going on in Sergey's life to prompt the beard? Does it have something to do with how his cofounder, Larry Page, is now CEO?  Probably. Additional reporting by Jay Yarow, Ellis Hamburger, and Steve Kovach. See the rest of...  

theodp writes " We were all foolish enough to go on this adventure,' Google co-founder Sergey Brin told the assembled Brainiacs at Google's Solve for X event last week, recalling the time he and Google co-founder Larry Page took their Gulfstream on a $100K journey to watch a 2008 Soyuz launch in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. 'If the rocket blows up, we're all dead,' Sergey overheard a Russian guard say. 'It was incredibly close,' Sergey continued. 'We...  

Craig Silverstein, the first employee hired by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, is leaving the company. Silverstein, who helped build the Google search engine, met Page and Brin while the three attended Stanford.  

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