Lawrence Page

reputed to be worth a staggering $17.5bn – at 37 years old, Larry is the co-founder of Google Inc .With his parents guidance Lawrence was groomed for success in the IT industry and from the beginning Page was destined to be successful one way or another. But it was his collaboration with his soon to be co-founder, Sergey Brin, whilst studying at Stamford that was the turning point for the young Page. After struggling to hit it off as friends initially the pair started working on a project together that evolved into what we now know to be the Google search engine. Failing to sell the plan as they had wanted to at the outset, the pair were able to bring in enough funding to set up the business themselves and in September 1998 Google Inc opened in Menlo Park, California. The rest as they say was history.

I've grouped the next addition together with the previous one as the two seem to go pretty much hand in hand...a pair of web entrepreneurs who have made millions online!