Newsfeed / People / Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin

googleentrepreneurshippioneerinfrastructure

About Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998 while PhD students at Stanford. After stepping back from day-to-day operations, he returned to active development work on Gemini, Google's frontier AI model.

Career Highlights

  • Google/Alphabet (1998-present): Co-founder, now active on Gemini
  • Google X (2010-2015): Led Google Glass development
  • Stanford PhD (dropped out): Computer science, PageRank research
  • Emigrated from USSR: Came to US at age 6

Notable Positions

On Google's AI Mistakes

Candid about missing the moment:

"We for sure messed up... we didn't take AI as seriously as we should have eight years ago."

But the investments in infrastructure paid off:

"We had Jeff Dean and Google Brain, the data center scale, the chip development, the transformer research. It wasn't luck - it was institutional memory in deep tech paying dividends."

On Technical Depth

"Technical depth has become the moat again. After a decade where you could slap .com on anything, we're back to an era where physics PhDs, mathematicians, and people who can think from first principles are building durable companies."

On AI as Augmentation

"Occasionally brilliant, periodically dumb, always supervised - that's the right framing. The vision isn't superintelligence replacing humans. It's making individuals radically more capable."

Key Quotes

  • "We for sure messed up on AI timing."
  • "Technical depth is the moat again."
  • "Freedom to be unproductive matters."