Sergey Brin Was Born Thi...

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• Author: @JonErlichman on Twitter
• Full Title: Sergey Brin Was Born Thi...
• Category: #tweets
• Read on: 2022-08-21
• URL: https://twitter.com/JonErlichman/status/1561395322701619200

Highlights

• Sergey Brin was born this day in 1973.
  He immigrated to the U.S. with his family at the age of 6.
  20 years later, he started one of the world’s most successful businesses.
  Learn more about his journey 🧵👇
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• Brin was a math wiz.
  In high school, they called him a “young Einstein.”
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• At Stanford, Brin was playful as a programmer and a person.
  He was often spotted rollerblading down the hallways.
  The interest in rollerblades didn’t fade.
  Here is at a big event years later.
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• He was at Stanford when he first met Larry Page.
  Brin was a tour guide for Page, who was a new student.
  They clashed at first, but their interest in the web brought them together. https://t.co/C9TXv23Uem (View Tweet)
• In 1998, they got their first investment: a $100,000 check.
  It took some time to deposit because they had not set up a bank account.
  Brin and Page had a celebratory breakfast at Burger King.
  https://t.co/6wvELdJj7U (View Tweet)
• The business launched in a garage.
  They rented it from Google’s first marketing manager, Susan Wojcicki.
  (she now runs YouTube)
  They paid $1,700 a month in rent.
  Here’s an early office video tour from the company’s 6th employee:
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• Early on, they actually wanted to sell Google for $750,000.
  They were rejected.
  And so the journey continued…
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• Google eventually moved into an office, where it was pretty casual.
  Here’s Brin spraying silly string at an office birthday party:
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• In Google’s early years, Brin still enjoyed some anonymity.
  In 2000, he was on a game show where panelists had to guess who was the real founder of Google.
  Nobody picked him.
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• Here’s a more serious Brin explaining how Google works a year later:
  https://t.co/nImBJkpbGn (View Tweet)
• As Google grew, Brin always seemed most excited about what was next.
  Here he is explaining an early version of Google’s mobile search technology:
  https://t.co/O97yhhRE7j (View Tweet)
• And here, he unveils Android in 2007:
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• 5 years later, he enlisted skydivers to help demo Google Glass in real-time:
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