Sergey brin biography video on michael
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The crazy, eccentric, successful life of Google cofounder Sergey Brin
But Brin comes from humble beginnings. He was born to parents Michael and Eugenia Brin in the Soviet Union during the summer of 1973.
At the time, his father Michael dreamed of being an astrophysicist, but anti-Semitism in Soviet Russia coupled with his Jewish background kept him from those ambitions and even made it hard for him to find work as a mathematician — he ended up working as an economist for a government planning agency, crunching numbers for Soviet propaganda.Sergey brin biography video on michael
The family managed to get exit visas and flee the USSR when Sergey was six, but his family's stressful, troubled experience left the Google cofounder with a lasting appreciation for democracy and freedom.
Source: In The Plex
Brin first re-visited Moscow when he was 17 on a class trip led by his father.
"Thank you for taking us all out of Russia," he told Michael Brin solemnly. Spurred by a blossoming defiant streak, he threw