Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The two met at Stanford in 1995 and collaborated on a search engine called Backrub. Google is a play on the word “googol,” which is a one followed by 100 zeros. The name was a great summary of Page and Brin’s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Forbes named Page and Brin among the world’s richest tech billionaires in 2018, with net worths of $48.8 billion and $47.5 billion respectively. Page and Brin are also shareholders in Alphabet and have concentrated power within the company through “supervotes.”

Google CEO Sundar Pichai was also awarded restricted stock units in 2014. Sundar Pichai’s salary is only $650,000, according to Salary.com, but Pichai’s net worth is likely much higher: In April 2018, he cashed in on $380 million worth of stock awards.

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