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ON THE MOVE
The New Alphabet
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Global Game Changers
T he mythos of the two Stanford division Nest and more. Brin, Alphabet’s
students, who in 1998 created President, is directing special projects at
a search engine that changed Alphabet X, (formerly Google X); its top secret
the world is well-known. Today innovation testing division where the high-
Google is an internet searching behemoth tech gadgets are created.
and Larry Page and Sergey Brin are two of the Page and Brin make it a priority to use
wealthiest men on the planet. technology to better the world for all. Sundar
Pichai, CEO of Alphabet’s Google division,
Google has expanded exponentially venturing explains how a recent breakthrough in their
into areas like drone delivery, pharmaceuticals, Artificial Intelligence program could be, “…
and autonomous cars. literally, game changing — and the ultimate
winner is humanity,” with solutions for “…
“We try to invest …,” says Brin, “in the places bigger challenges like climate change and “Obviously everyone wants to be successful,
where we see a good fit to our company. But that cancer diagnosis.” but I want to be looked back on as being
could be many, many bets, and only a few of Despite all they have already accomplished, very innovative, very trusted and ethical and
them need to pay off.” Larry Page and Sergey Brin are brilliant ultimately making a big difference in the
innovators at heart and they are just getting world.” - Sergey Brin
Reflecting this diversity, Page and Brin have started. “If you're changing the world, you're working
restructured, with Alphabet acting as a parent on important things. You're excited to get up in
entity that controls several companies. Page, the morning.” -Larry Page
as Alphabet CEO, runs Google, the healthcare
division Calico, the smart home appliance
Photo: Ap, Michael Grecco.
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