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==Larry Page==

Someone tagged this article but didn't actually process it into the list, nor did they assign it. I'm going to look it over and clean it up myself if need be; otherwise I shall remove the tag. Your one true god is David P. A. Hunter, esq. III Talk to me! 04:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Added to User:Hunterd/Desk Your one true god is David P. A. Hunter, esq. III Talk to me! 04:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
To-do list for Larry Page: edit · history · watch · refresh
  • Find more information on him, rather than just the company he co-founded.
  • Find more information on his current role within Google.

Contents

[edit] Early life and education

The third paragraph of this section seems a little too "promotional" to me. -- Skaraoke 11:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Article name

This article should be moved to Larry Page, according to the Wikipedia policy for the article name to be the common name. For example, the article on James Earl Carter is at Jimmy Carter. Twilight Realm 00:51, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

BTW, what does "E." stand for? Anyone know his full name? --80.167.172.134 18:36, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Edward, apparently. -- Zanimum 20:19, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
Actually, I think his middle name is Edison.

[edit] Unknown Height?

"Larry Page, of unknown height, was born in Lansing, Michigan." What makes his height relevant to that sentence? Or the entire entry? Is he particularly tall or short?

The "of unknown height" part is not relevant at all. It should be removed. It's just as uninformative as leaving it out of the sentence entirely. Noobarino 22:49, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Business section

So Page built an inkjet printer out of lego bricks. How is this relevant to the business? Removed this: "While in the university, he built a working inkjet printer from Lego pieces." Genome82 12:18, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Not very, but they do mention it in his official biography. It's just a footnote now. -- Zanimum 20:20, 26 July 2006 (UTC)


The part detailing the Tesla Roadster has conflicting information with Sergey Brin's wiki page. Namely the miles calculation is wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.32.182.103 (talk) 12:55, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Net Worth

The intro and summary box state that his net worth is estimated at $24 billion, while lower in the article it states his net worth, according to Forbes, is $12.8 billion - is one of these inaccurate? Are these two different estimates by different organizations? (The latter option I would find surprising given the difference between the two numbers) -- unregistered user, 02:29, 13 August 2006 (UTC)


According to the recent Forbes 400 list, Page is currently worth $14 billion:

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/54/biz_06rich400_The-400-Richest-Americans_Rank.html

I've struck a direct mention of Page's net worth due to the high variability; his worth is directly pegged to Google's stock price. We know that he's worth in the range of $14B to $18B nowadays, but since his net worth goes up and down by hundreds of millions (if not whole billions) of dollards each day, stating an amount in Wikipedia is just silliness. —XSG 07:24, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Explanation - The video on Forbes.com says that the $18.5B figure for Brin and Page (on the 2007 Forbes 400 list) was calculated as of August 31, 2007. Extrapolating the Google stock price from $515.25 on Aug 31 to its close today (Oct 23) at $675.77, Page (and Brin) would have a net worth of about $24,260,000,000 each, assuming that the bulk of their worth is solely in 'GOOG's.--JJ 07:27, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Did he invent the Web Page?

--Greasysteve13 10:04, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

No, that would be Tim Berners-Lee.

Lpetrazickis (talk) 07:16, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jewish?

More than a few sites have reported on Page's supposed Jewish heritage (but it still remains unverified), including many philo-Semitic sites run by Jews (such as this one: [1]). Does anyone have information on this? Don't we have ANY basic information about his ethnic and/or religious heritage to include in this article as is found in so many other articles? --172.162.183.108 08:45, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Oddly enough, I just noticed, through some fluke involving the individual words "page," "Jew," and "Larry," that if you type the exact phrase "Larry Page Jew" in to Google the second result is the Wikipedia article "List of Jewish American businesspeople" (because all of those individual words are found on this page); co-founder Brin is on this page because his Jewish ancestry is verified and he is a businessperson. Hmmm...how...strange. --172.162.183.108 09:00, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, Page is Jewish (at least partly). So we can now insert a little something about his heritage in to this article. From the B'Nai B'rith site: "By contrast, Larry Page, whose mother Gloria is Jewish, grew up without much attachment to Jewish religion or culture. Raised more in the mold of his father, Carl Victor Page, whose religion was technology, Larry clearly has computing in his genes. His mother taught computer programming at Michigan State, and his older brother, Carl Jr., is a successful Internet entrepreneur. Larry's maternal grandfather, however, followed a much different path. He was an early settler in Israel, making aliyah in the spartan desert town of Arad. Aspects of his pioneering spirit-as well as the staunch progressive ideals of Larry's father-have been passed down to Larry, who actively supports causes ranging from space exploration to fighting poverty in Africa" [2]. -- 172.163.119.135 21:15, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Than if so, is there any reason why not to put him in the category of "jewish businesspeople"? for some reason he keeps getting in and out of it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.228.121.218 (talk • contribs) 18:58, 26 April 2007.

Well if he is, why was he taken several times out of the "jewish businesspeople" category?User:Zivb2006

Re visiting ethnicity. If this can be working into the article in a meaningful way great, otherwise, is there some point to be made here??--Tom 15:59, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Here is a source: http://forums.aliensoup.com/showthread.php?t=22575 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.230.173.141 (talk) 19:58, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Less than Brin?

Why would he be worth less?

[edit] photo

aren't there any higher quality free-licensed photos? if there are, why is the one still used, even though its blurred, if not, doesn't anyone have personal photos of page he could publish?--Ghazer (talk) 20:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Larry Page (with friends at TED 2005)
Larry Page (with friends at TED 2005)
I just did a quick search with FIST, but only found this one, which I think is not much better. Shall we use it? Regards, High on a tree (talk) 23:54, 17 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] University of Mer Harry Mullins?

"At University of Mer harry mullins, Page was a member of the solar car team and served as the president of the HKN."

Errr.. what? University of Mer harry mullins? What's that? Th 2005 (talk) 17:47, 4 March 2008 (UTC)