Sergey Brin

Source of wealth: Google

Net Worth

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Biography

Sergey Brin stepped down as president of Alphabet, parent company of Google, in 2019 but remains a board member and a controlling shareholder.

Brin moved to the U.S. from Russia when he was 6 years old in the wake of anti-Semitism against his family.

He cofounded Google with Larry Page in 1998 after the two met at Stanford University while studying for advanced degrees in computer science.

Google went public in 2004 and began trading as Alphabet, a newly created parent company, in 2015.

Brin has donated more than $2 billion to Parkinson's research and other causes.

Perspective on their fortune

Gold

Everyday luxury

A Sergey Brin's fortune is equivalent to 2022 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

Sergey Brin could buy 539,294,143 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 96 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Sergey Brin will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.

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While billions of people struggle to access basic healthcare, education, and research, a single individual could fund entire national systems for centuries.

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Health

The price of life

Let's compare Sergey Brin's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country

Sergey Brin could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 135.0 years.

But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country

At the other extreme, Sergey Brin could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 59.7 years

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Education

Buying the future

Lowest education spending

Sergey Brin 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 88.2 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, Sergey Brin could pay for it in full for 120.0 years.

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Research

The monopoly of progress

Lowest research spending

Sergey Brin 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 505.1 years.

Highest research spending

But even if we compare the total wealth of Sergey Brin 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 11.3 years.