A little more than a year ago, Google pressed the reset button, completely overhauling its corporate structure through the formation of a brand new parent company called Alphabet.
This change comes nearly 20 years after cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin first launched Google from a dorm room in Stanford.
It's been a wild ride for both of them since, but Brin's history is especially intriguing.
Learn more about the man behind the world's most popular search engine.
Jillian D'Onfro contributed to an earlier version of this story.
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With the announcement of Alphabet, Brin got a title upgrade, transitioning from "director of special projects" at Google's moonshot factory, X, to becoming president of the new parent company.
All told, Brin is worth about $38.3 billion, according to Forbes.
Source: Forbes
But Brin comes from humble beginnings. He was born to parents Michael and Eugenia Brin in the Soviet Union during the summer of 1973.
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