When we hear Tesla, we all naturally think of an attractive electric car. This car is named after the great scientist Nikola Tesla. Tesla's story is sad. He made world-changing inventions in the fields of electricity and communication. But when he failed commercially, he had to live in poverty.

Larry Page, who shed tears after reading Tesla's biography, had decided at the age of 12, 'It's not enough to just invent, you have to build a successful company to bring it to people's hands.'

The domain was registered under this name after the spelling of Googol was mistakenly written as Google and Larry said that the misspelling sounded sweet In 1998, at the age of 25, Larry founded Google Corporation with his friend Sergey Brin. Now, Google and its other tools are used daily by millions of people around the world. Before AI chatbots became popular, you had to search the Internet to find out that Google was the first option. Google was formed from the mathematical word 'googol'. Googol means 1 followed by 100 zeros. The domain was registered under this name after the spelling of Googol was mistakenly written as Google and Larry said that the misspelling sounded sweet, according to a blog post at Stanford University.

Larry Page has been on the list of the world's billionaires since 2004. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 when Google's shares were opened to the public in 2004. By 2026, his wealth had reached $300 billion. He is currently the second richest person in the world on both Forbes and Bloomberg's billionaire index. He is in the top 10 on this list of the richest every year. Despite being so rich, he does not live a particularly luxurious life. The fact that Larry and Sergey both earned $1 a year while working at Google is always considered interesting in the technology sector.

Larry Page was born in Michigan, USA in 1973. His father, Carl Victor Page, was a professor of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) at Michigan State University. His mother, Gloria, also taught computer programming. His house was always full of computer and science magazines. Larry has said in his interviews that he received his first computer as a gift in 1978 at the age of 6.

After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in engineering, he enrolled at Stanford University to pursue a doctorate. There he met Sergey Brin. Brin later became the co-founder of Google. While at the university, Larry had the idea of ​​downloading all the links on the Internet and analyzing their connections. He named the project, which is considered to be the early version of Google Search, ‘Backrab Search’. It was later renamed Google. He said in the Google Zeitgeist, ‘If you are very ambitious, it is easy to work. Because there are few competitors to work on what is considered impossible.’

Larry’s working style is considered very strict. In the early days, he did not like managers giving orders to engineers. In 2001, he fired all of Google’s project managers from their jobs in one day. He felt that good engineers do not need anyone’s instructions to work. However, Business Insider analyzed in detail the story of how he later understood the importance of management and brought in Eric Schmidt as CEO to make Google commercial in April 2014 in the news titled ‘The Untold Story of Larry Page...’.

As of 2026, Larry’s wealth is $300 billion, and he is the second richest person in the world on both Forbes and Bloomberg’s billionaire index Larry restructured Google in 2015 and created an umbrella company called ‘Alphabet’. Alphabet now has dozens of units and services such as Google Search, YouTube, Google Cloud, DeepMind, Google Pixel, Moonshot Factory, etc. ‘Our goal is to make technology as useful as a toothbrush that people use twice a day,’ says Larry. He made services like Android, YouTube and Google Maps successful. Larry bought Android in 2005. Today it is the world’s most popular mobile software.

Larry is considered to be introverted and quiet by nature. He does not like to appear in many public events and media. He has not given any interviews to anyone for the past decade. When I used his Google chatbot, Gemini, to find interesting facts about him, it said, ‘Larry’s voice sounds a bit hoarse and machine-like. This is due to health problems such as vocal cord paralysis and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.’ He has donated millions of dollars to research to treat his vocal cords.

Larry married Lucy Southworth in 2007. They have two children. He has opened a foundation named after his father, Carl Victor Page. It has spent billions of dollars to solve problems such as climate change and hunger, as well as fighting the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, according to the American Academy of Achievement website. He has lived a relatively anonymous life since stepping down as head of Alphabet in 2011. But he is a board member and major shareholder of Alphabet. He and Sergey Brin both have more than 51 percent of the company's voting rights.