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Google cofounder Sergey Brin says these 2 books most influenced him

Feb 24, 2016, 23:05 IST

Google cofounder and Alphabet president Sergey Brin speaks to the media following presentations at a media preview of Google's prototype autonomous vehicles in Moutain View, California September 29, 2015.Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters

In 1996, Sergey Brin and his Stanford Ph.D. classmate Larry Page started developing what would become the Google search engine.

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On his personalized Stanford site from those early days, he wrote, "Research on the Web seems to be fashionable these days and I guess I'm no exception. "

Today, Google is the primary subsidiary of Alphabet, Brin and Page's monolithic tech company with a market cap of more than $480 billion. Aside from serving as president of Alphabet, Brin is also CEO of its secretive company X, which aims to develop potentially world-changing technologies like self-driving cars.

In a 2000 interview with the Academy of Achievement nonprofit, conducted when Google was still four years away from its initial public offering, Brin said there were two books that especially inspired him to dedicate his career to blending technology and creativity.

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