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Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin

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Sergey Brin -- Born: 1973-08-21. Occupation: author. Employer: Alphabet Inc.. Position: board of directors member. Education: Eleanor Roosevelt High School. Awards: Abramowitz Award.

Born1973-08-21

Occupationauthor, business executive, computer scientist, entrepreneur

EmployerAlphabet Inc.

Positionboard of directors member

EducationEleanor Roosevelt High School, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Stanford University, University of Maryland

AwardsAbramowitz Award, Asia's Most Influential Singapore, Computer Pioneer Award, Marconi Prize, Seoul Test of Time Award

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“too scared to bring it to people”
searchengineland.com2025-12-15Source
“anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now. They should be working on AI.”
bigtechnology.com2025-05-21Source
“made a lot of mistakes with Google Glass”
TechCrunch2025-05-20Source
“didn’t know anything about consumer electronic supply chains,”
TechCrunch2025-05-20Source
“It’s a big, fast-moving field,”
TechCrunch2024-09-11Source
“It’s funny, because it’s like the perfect hardware,”
cnet.com2024-05-14Source
“We haven’t fully understood why it leans left in many cases”
CNBC2024-03-04Source
“I think it was mostly due to just not thorough testing. It definitely, for good reasons, upset a lot of people.”
CNBC2024-03-04Source
“Seeing what these models can do year after year is astonishing,”
CNBC2024-03-04Source
“We definitely messed up on the image generation,”
CNBC2024-03-04Source
“I almost feel like we’re at Burning Man, but we’re all wearing clothes.”
weforum.org2017-01-01Source
“We’re lucky to have an environment that tolerates lots of risk and tolerates the inevitable failures.”
weforum.org2017-01-01Source
“First of all, let me just tell all of you that you should doubt my answers,”
weforum.org2017-01-01Source
“You can’t just think narrowly about your business … that you’re just going to maximize earnings and not be concerned about what’s going on around you,”
weforum.org2017-01-01Source
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“Like most of us, we get some benefit by thinking before we speak,”
axios.com2025-05-21Source
“tremendous value to humanity,”
TechCrunch2024-09-11Source
“We have made them hallucinate less and less over time, but I'd definitely be excited to see a breakthrough that's near-zero,”
CNBC2024-03-04Source
“But you can't just like — count on breakthroughs so I think we're just going to keep doing the incremental things we do to bring it down, down, down over time.”
CNBC2024-03-04Source
“It seems to me that companies are taking these things seriously,”
weforum.org2017-01-01Source

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