英語名人堂：謝爾蓋·米哈伊洛維奇·布林

謝爾蓋·布林，全名謝爾蓋·米克哈伊洛維奇·布林(Sergey Brin)(俄語： Сергей Михайлович Брин)是Google公司的創(chuàng)始人之一。是一位美國籍俄羅斯裔企業(yè)家。他出生在俄羅斯，在他與拉里·佩奇合作建立Google之前，他一直學習計算機科學和數(shù)學。謝爾蓋目前是Google董事兼技術部總監(jiān)，近年來在《福布斯》全球億萬富豪排行榜上始終名列前茅，2011年他以198億美元位列第24位。

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin is famous for revolutionizing the world of Internet search engines. He co-founded Google with his research partner Larry Page. The whole world knows about Google, but perhaps knows little about Sergey Brin. He is the President of Technology at Google and takes an active role in shaping the company’s future. He is the fourth youngest billionaire in the world.

Brin was born in Moscow in 1973. Both his mother and father were mathematicians, which might explain Sergey’s genius for numbers and formulae. Brin and his family emigrated to the United States when he was six. He attended a Montessori school and his father developed his interest in maths. He graduated from university in 1993 with a degree in maths and computer science.

Brin finished his master’s degree in computer science at America’s prestigious Stanford University. He started his Ph.D. on the processes and calculations that search engines use. He teamed up with Larry Page and they wrote a paper that became the blueprint for Google. He put his studies aside to focus on his new business project. It made him rich beyond his wildest dreams.

Although Brin’s ‘official’ salary is just over $43,000 a year, he has a personal fortune of $18.5 billion. He has expanded his business interests into other areas of technology and movie production. In 2008, he invested $5 million in a space tourism company. He is also an investor in Tesla Motors, which is developing a long-range electric car.