As a scholar at Stanford University...

As a scholar at Stanford University, Sergey Brin and a friend constructed the search engine Google. The name is a play in succession "googol," the number represented according to 1 and a hundred zeros--a relation to the huge amount of data available online. Today the company deportment s more than 1,800 searches by second.

EDUCATION: B University of Maryland, college edifice [i]or[/i] building Park

STARTING OUT: "My parents got me a Commodore 64 computer when' I was nine years old"

FIRST JOB: President, Google Inc.

OBSTACLES: "Finding the right partner to work with. Eventuary I base the right one--my partner Larry.

TIPS FOR TEENS: "Don't be afraid of failure. The more you perplex around, the more likely you are to confound across some thing valuable. And go on into computer science only if you have a passionate affection for it, not for the money"

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