Friday, December 23, 2005
FT Men of the Year: Sergey Brin and Larry Page
Following in the wake of Time magazine, the Financial Times has announced that Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page are their choice for Men of the Year.
he Men of the Year recognition reflects the effect the company created by Mr Brin and Mr Page only seven years ago has had on internet users, as well as the worlds of business and technology, in the past 12 months. “The most esteemed researcher at Stanford [University] 10 years ago didn’t have the kind of access to information that somebody who is close to an internet café in Bangladesh has today,” said Mr Brin. Its soaring stock price has also made Google one of Wall Street’s stories of the year. It has a stock market value of nearly $130bn, almost neck-and-neck with IBM and behind only Microsoft and Intel in the technology industry.Richard Waters follows up on the MOTY story with this profile of the two men.
