Sergey Brin was unimaginably wealthy and enjoyed enormous esteem and respect due to his co-founding of Google. At some point he retired, but he did not find sweet laziness.
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Sergey Brin, who retired in 2019 with a fortune of $50 billion, quickly felt he was lacking challenges. He spent time in cafes, studied physics, but he did not feel happy. After the reopening of Google's offices, he returned to the company and today is responsible for special projects.
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“I wanted to sit in cafes and study physics. It was my passion then. I was just somehow dissatisfied and felt like I was falling down. I wasn't that smart anymore,” Brin said during the celebration of the centenary of the Faculty of Engineering at Stanford University, quoted by Focus.de.
He retired at the age of 45. The Google co-founder returns to work
As Google reopened its offices after the pandemic, Brin increasingly returned to his old workplace. As reported by Focus.de, the entrepreneur cooperated, among other things, in the development of Gemini. He is currently responsible for managing special projects and is worth approximately $251 billion.
In 2019, Sergey Brin – like Larry Page – said goodbye to the company he co-founded. Both entrepreneurs stated then that Google and Alphabet were stable, operated effectively and independently, and therefore “it was time to simplify the management structure.”
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They also emphasized that they are not people who want to stick to managerial positions if there is a “better way to manage the company.” “Alphabet and Google no longer need two CEOs and a president,” they explained.
In 2023, The New York Times reported that Alphabet, the parent company of the Google brand, was to ask the company's co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin for help. According to the daily, the launch of the OpenAI tool that generates content in response to questions raised a “red alert” at Google.
