Sergey Brin
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Sergey Brin reads as The Pioneer because his career has been organised around exploration rather than optimisation. Co-founding Google, he helped transform how humanity accesses information at a scale previously unimagined. At Google X he pursued moonshots including self-driving cars, Project Loon, and Google Glass, prototyping the future instead of refining the present. That restless, boundary-pushing curiosity, applied well beyond conventional technology leadership, is the pioneer instinct in its purest form.
“When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.”
“We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are, but not web pages.”
“Having come from a totalitarian country, the Soviet Union, and having seen the hardships that my family endured, both while there and trying to leave, I certainly am particularly sensitive to the stifling of individual liberties.”
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