Larry Page and Sergey Brin

A project together, strengthening a search for the world. 

Year:  1998

Company: Google

Partnership: Larry and Sergey met at Stanford’s PhD course in 1995, but they did not instantly become friends. During a campus tour for doctoral students, Brin was Page’s guide and they quarelled and bickered the entire time.  Despite their quarrel, the two found themselves working on a research project together.  Their paper, “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hyper textual Web Search Engine,” became the basis for Google.

How it worked: Sergey and Larry have similar technology backgrounds; they fell in love with computers at an early age, they bonded over their passion for data mining and grew to have similar visions for their company. They may have been born on opposite sides of the world (Brin from Russia and Page from Michigan), but Sergey and Larry are certainly cut from the same cloth.