Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-American entrepreneur best known as a cofounder of Google.

Sergey Brin in 2010

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• re gmail, great user experience has helped other email systems (others have increased storage etc). there are areas that have been overlooked in industry, much as search was overlooked in the 90's. thinks they have technology, distribution infrastructure to address those things.
  • Conversation: Sergey Brin of Google (October 7, 2005)

• When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.
  • Guynn, Jessica (September 17, 2008). "Google's Schmidt, Page and Brin hold court at Zeitgeist". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-01-07.

• We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.
  • Guest lecture, UC Berkeley Oct. 5, 2005 – 40 min.

• Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.
  • Guest lecture, UC Berkeley Oct. 5, 2005 – 40 min.

• ... whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.
  • Hall, Kevin (November 6, 2012). "Google's Sergey Brin calls on U.S. politicians to ditch their parties". Dvice.com (Syfy). Retrieved 2012-11-12.
• Having come from a totalitarian country, the Soviet Union, and having seen the hardships that my family endured–both while there and trying to leave—I certainly am particularly sensitive to the stifling of individual liberties.
  • Quartz: "Without Sergey Brin, Google has lost its healthy fear of authoritarianism" (6 August 2018)

• If what you’re doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it’s probably not transformative enough.
  • Mayer, Catherine (August 5, 2013). Meet ‘Schmeat’: Say Hello to the Stem-Cell Hamburger. Time Magazine. Retrieved 2019-08-30.

Quotes about Brin

• Sergey’s the Google playboy. He was known for getting his fingers caught in the cookie jar with employees that worked for the company in the masseuse room. He got around.
  • Charlie Ayers in Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom) (2018)