Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is ranked No. 2 on the Forbes 2026 World’s Billionaires list with a net worth of $257 billion. He stepped down from Alphabet’s top job in 2019 but remains a board member and one of its two controlling shareholders.
Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26, 1973, in Lansing, Michigan. His father, Carl Page, earned a PhD in computer science and taught at Michigan State University, and his mother, Gloria, taught computer programming. According to Wikipedia, Page’s father brought home an Exidy Sorcerer computer when he was six.
Net Worth and Rank
- Forbes 2026 list: No. 2, with $257 billion
- Source of wealth: his stake in Google’s parent company, Alphabet
Education and PageRank
Page earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995 and a master’s in computer science from Stanford University in 1998. At Stanford he explored the link structure of the web with his supervisor Terry Winograd’s encouragement. The resulting ranking algorithm, PageRank, won him and Sergey Brin the Marconi Prize in 2004.
Building Google and Alphabet
- CEO of Google: 1997 to August 2001, and again from April 2011 to July 2015
- Alphabet: on August 10, 2015, Google was restructured under a new holding company, Alphabet, with Page as its CEO and Sundar Pichai running Google
- Stepping back: on December 4, 2019, Page and Brin stepped down from all executive and day-to-day roles
He remains an Alphabet board member and employee, and he and Brin are its two controlling shareholders, according to Wikipedia.
Investments and Private Life
Page is an investor in Tesla and in renewable-energy technology. In August 2021 it emerged that he holds a New Zealand resident’s visa; he had been living in Fiji during the pandemic and travelled to New Zealand on a medical flight on January 12, 2021, for his son’s treatment.
Why It Matters
Page and Brin built the search engine that organises much of the web, and Alphabet’s share price drives both their fortunes, which rank among the largest in the world.
Net worth figures change daily with share prices. Rankings here follow the Forbes 2026 World’s Billionaires list, with wealth measured on March 1, 2026.
Image: Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page (right) at a Google event in May 2008. Photo: Joi Ito / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
