Serguéi Brin was born in Moscow in 1973 and emigrated to the United States at age 6. He studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Maryland and Stanford University. While at Stanford, he met Larry Page and together they created Google Search Engine, originally called BackRub, which became a successful search engine and they founded Google Inc. with financial support from others. Brin is now an internet entrepreneur and billionaire with a net worth of $27.3 billion as of 2014, and he has received various awards for his work on Google.