Larry Page
Source of wealth: Google
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Biography
Larry Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, in 2019 but remains a board member and a controlling shareholder.
He cofounded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford Ph.D. student Sergey Brin.
With Brin, Page invented Google's PageRank algorithm, which powers the search engine.
Page was CEO until 2001, when Eric Schmidt took over, and then from 2011 until 2015, when he became CEO of Google's new parent firm Alphabet.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A Larry Page's fortune is equivalent to 2193 of gold, but this may be difficult to value, as we don't usually have a handful of gold bars in our piggy bank.
A standard gold ring typically weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18k gold.
Based on today's gold price (not taking into account the jeweler's fee, shipping, or anything else), that gold ring would be worth $556.3
Larry Page could buy 584,870,963 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and a lot of gifts!!
And if the number of rings is difficult to visualize, all these rings would need 104 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Larry Page will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Larry Page's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
Larry Page could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 146.4 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, Larry Page could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 64.7 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
Larry Page could assume the entire cost of the education system of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with more than 243,000,000 inhabitants for 95.7 years.
Highest education spending
But not only could he assume the cost of a poor country, Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, Larry Page could pay for it in full for 130.1 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
Larry Page could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 260,000,000 of inhabitants, for 547.8 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of Larry Page with Israel, the country that currently invests the most per capita in research in the world, it could assume the total cost of the system for 12.3 years.
Financial Assets
Monthly wealth history
Fortune comparison
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