Lawrence Edward Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of the co-founders of Google along with Sergey Brin.
Page, whose father was a professor of computer science at Michigan State University, received a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan  and entered into the doctorate program at Stanford, where he met Brin. The two were both intrigued with the idea of enhancing the ability to extract meaning from the mass of data accumulated on the Internet. They devised a new type of search engine technology that leveraged Web users’ own ranking abilities by tracking each site’s “backing links.

In order to further their search engine, Page and Brin raised about $1 million in outside financing from investors, family, and friends. They called their expanded search engine Google. By September 1998 the two had founded Google Inc., with Page as chief executive officer . The next year Google received $25 million of venture capital funding and was processing 500,000 queries per day. Page stepped down as CEO in 2001 to become president of products. However, both he and Brin remained intimately involved in running Google. By 2004 the search engine was being utilized 200 million times a day. On August 19, 2004, Google Inc. issued its initial public offering , which netted Page more than $3.8 billion. In 2011 Page resumed his duties as Google’s CEO, Schmidt. Google was restructured in August 2015 as a subsidiary of the newly created holding company Alphabet Inc., and Page became CEO of Alphabet.