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October 1995

Larry Page participates in an introductory orientation program at Stanford that includes a day in San Francisco. His guide is Sergey Brin. Sergey, a Jew born in Moscow to a poor family, arrived in the United States in May 1979. In the USSR, his father lost his job as soon as he applied for emigration. In the United States, his father found a job at the University of Maryland and his mother at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Sergey and Larry would go on to found Google.