shop. This exposure to entrepreneurship from all of these family members rubbed off on Buffett at a young age. Other notable entrepreneurs include the co-founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Page and Brin met in 1995 while they were Ph.D. students in computer engineering at Stanford University. Page was from Lansing, Michigan, and was the son of a computer science professor at Michigan State University who specialized in artificial intelligence. Page’s mother also taught computer programming at the Michigan State University. Page spent his youth learning about computers and immersed himself into multiple technology journals that his parents read. Page had a very impressive educational background. He attended a Montessori school initially, and then went to a public high school. He later went on to earn a Bachelor of Science Degree (with honors) in computer engineering from the University of Michigan. Page was then accepted to graduate school at Stanford where he met Brin and began his study of website linkages. Sergey Brin was born in 1973 in Moscow Russia. At age six, Brin and his family, who were Jewish, fled Russia to the United States to escape anti-Semitism. Brin’s father is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland and
his mother is a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Brin attended a Montessori high school and graduated with a degree in computer science and mathematics with honors from the University of Maryland. He then began to study computer science at Stanford University until he dropped out to form Google with Page. On the other side are entrepreneurs that come from humble beginnings. For example, Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy’s, was an orphan. Gabrielle, “Coco” Chanel, the founder of the Chanel brand, was born to an unmarried couple, who were later married when she was a toddler. Her father was a peddler and mother came from a family of peasants. Her mother died when she was 12 years old. One week later she was abandoned by her father, who left her to be raised by the nuns in an orphanage. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple with Steve Wozniak, was orphaned as a baby and adopted. He was adopted by a working class family that had no college degrees. Jobs went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but dropped out after one semester. Sam Walton, the founder of WalMart only had an 8th grade education. Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, was born to a 19-year-old 57