Larry Page was born March 26, 1973 in Lansing, Michigan, USA, from Dr. Carl Victor Page, who used to be a professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at Michigan State University and Gloria Page, a computer programming teacher at Michigan State University.

In a recent interview he said: "From a very early age, I realized I wanted to invent things. So I became really interested in technology...and business. So probably from when I was 12 I knew I was going to start a company eventually."

After enrolling for a Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University he started with his university mate Sergey Brin doing research.

Page and Brin began work on a project called "The Anatomy of a Large-scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine". Their challenge was to crawl the web efficiently and provide more relevant results than the search engines that were available at that time. The dramatic growth of the web presented problems in crawling the web, keeping the crawled information up to date, storing the indices efficiently, and handling many queries quickly.

He never finished his Ph.D because of the great success of his Google search engine. It was started in 1998 and grew rapidly every year since its beginnings. Page and Brin started with their own funds, and that of their friends and family but the site quickly outgrew their own available resources. They eventually received private investments through Stanford to fund the rapid growth of up to 20% per month.

Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of it.

According to the 2007 edition of Forbes, Page had an estimated net worth of $16.6 Billion, placing him and Sergey Brin at rank 26 on Forbes's list of the richest persons in the world.

Page married Lucinda Southworth at Richard Branson's Caribbean island, Necker Island, on December 8, 2007.