Team+Google





__Education:__
== Larry Page and Sergey Brin both went to Stanford University, which is where they met. Larry Page and Sergey Brin both received their Master's degree in computer science. Sergey Brin also attended the University of Maryland, College Park and he received his bachelor degree in science, mathtmatics and in computer science. Larry Page also attended the University of Michigan and there he received his bachelor of science and in computer engineering. ==

__Salary:__
== During the second quarter of 2004 Brin and Page requested that their salaries of $150,000 a year be reduced to a very modest $1, $43,750 at the end of the year. The pair support themselves with the dividends received for their 36.5 million shares of Google stock. ==

__Awards and Honors:__
== Google was ranked number 4 in the Fortune 100 Best Companies to work for in 2009. In 2004, Larry and Sergey received the Marconi Foundation Prize, the "Highest Award in Engineering." In 2005, Brin and Page were elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. PC Magazine has praised Google as among the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines (1998) and awarded Google the Technical Excellence Award. In 2011, Larry was ranked 24th on the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires and as the 11th richest person in the United States. Page received an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan in 2009 during graduation commencement ceremonies. ==

__Foundations/Charitable Giving:__
== -Sergey Brin has donated over $30 million to HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) a foundation that helped his family escape the Anti-Semitism and persecution of 1970's Russia. He is now a board member of HIAS and has started a social networking site to encourage immigrants, past and future, to tell their stories of leaving their homeland and starting anew. ==

-Larry Page hasn't been independently involved with a charity.
== -The pair have created Google.org a foundation that uses Google's resources in information and technology to build products and advocate for policies that address global challenges. Such products include: Google Earth Engine, Google Flu Trends, and Google crisis response. Google.org has committed over $100 million in grants to non-profits and investments in companies with breakthrough technologies. ==

__Fun Facts:__
== -Since day one, they have resisted outside meddling, preferring to do everything their own way, from opting to piece together computers on the cheap (and build a computer casing out of Lego blocks) to flouting Wall Street in an unconventional initial public offering. == == - One operations manager, who keeps the Google network in good health is a former neurosurgeon. One software engineer is a former rocket scientist. And the company's chef formerly prepared meals for members of The Grateful Dead and funkmeister George Clinton. ==