Who is Sergey Brin?
Who is Sergey Brin?
Who is Sergey Brin? He is the mathematician and computer scientist who, with Larry Page, turned a Stanford research project into the Google search engine. His family left the Soviet Union in 1979 to escape antisemitism, and he grew up in Maryland 1.
At Google, Brin was president of technology and ran its most experimental projects. He became president of Alphabet in 2015 and stepped back with Page in 2019. In 2023 he returned to Google’s offices to work on artificial intelligence, contributing to the Gemini models 1.
Outside Google, he is one of the largest private funders of Parkinson’s disease research, owns the airship company LTA Research, and has become more politically active since 2025 16.
How did Sergey Brin make his money?
Sergey Brin is self-made. Almost all of his fortune is his stake in Alphabet, about 6% according to Bloomberg 4. With Page, he controls a majority of Alphabet’s votes through special Class B shares 7. Google’s 2004 IPO made him a billionaire at about 30, and Alphabet’s AI rally pushed him above $280 billion in 2026, before an October fall in Alphabet shares 26. See Sergey Brin’s net worth.
What companies does Sergey Brin own?
Brin’s main holding is Alphabet, the parent of Google, YouTube and Waymo. He also owns the airship maker LTA Research and funds research through his nonprofit Catalyst4 and family foundation 14. See Sergey Brin’s companies and investments.
What is Sergey Brin’s net worth?
Sergey Brin’s net worth was $214 billion on 1 November 2026, according to Forbes, down $49 billion in a month as Alphabet shares fell 2. In August 2026 Bloomberg had valued him at about $282 billion 6. See Sergey Brin’s net worth.
Early life, education and Google
Brin was born in Moscow to two mathematicians. His father became a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland and his mother worked as a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center 1. He finished his degree at Maryland at 19, went to Stanford on a National Science Foundation fellowship, and met Page there 1. See the Sergey Brin biography.
Who is in Sergey Brin’s family?
Brin has been married twice: to the 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki (2007-2015), with whom he has two children, and to the lawyer and entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan (2018-2023), with whom he has a daughter 1. Since 2024 he has been seen in public with his partner Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto 8. See Sergey Brin’s wife, children and family.
Where does Sergey Brin live?
Brin now lists Nevada as his residence, after he was linked to the $42 million purchase of a lakefront estate on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe in December 2025 56. He had lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for three decades. See Sergey Brin’s house, yacht and lifestyle.
Sergey Brin’s career at a glance
Key dates include emigrating to the US (1979), his Maryland degree (1993), co-founding Google (1998), the IPO (2004), president of Alphabet (2015-2019), his return to AI work (2023) and his move to Nevada (2025). See the Sergey Brin career timeline.
