What Happened to Larry Page?
I can't find any news about him since he left Google.
My guess, which is just a guess, is that the founders got tired of Google Search and advertising and Android and mobile hardware and privacy issues and regulatory issues so much that the “don’t be evil” motto was glaring at their faces and made them uncomfortable enough to step aside and let others run the show (or run things into the ground). This must have allowed them to enjoy their riches in relative peace.
Sometimes the things you create grow way beyond your capacity to handle and become soul crushing endeavors that bear little resemblance to the early years of adventure, fulfillment and satisfaction in serving others, and the wise thing to do would be to step aside and preserve your sanity and peace of mind.
Considering the relative secrecy that he is building these companies in, I'd guess he has other companies going as well.
He’s in the Caribbean a lot of the time and seemingly spent a lot of time there when he still had the CEO title. I didn’t see him much around google in those days (not that we move in the same circles, so this is purely anecdotal).
One of my friends lives on the same block and said a little while ago that he never sees him any more (they aren’t friends so it’s a “see the neighbors” kind of thing, also not something authoritative).
Maybe he's one of the regulars here on HN using an anonymous handle, taking part in these conversations without anyone judging him or his actions.
Well-known people have used pseudonyms for ages to preserve their privacy (for instance, when staying in hotels) or sometimes to manipulate public opinion -- writing letters to the editor under various names and personalities was a favorite tactic of Ben Franklin, even to the newspapers he owned!
More recently, Mitt Romney's alt Twitter account "Pierre Delecto" was uncovered after he gave away too many clues: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/mitt-romney-has-...
Retired, I presume. Sometimes people just want to spend time with their kids and not have to work all the time. And I'm sure he talks to Sundar Pichai all the time, Alphabet/Google was his baby afterall.
His paralyzed vocal cords make public speeches hard.
He is still Alphabet board member and employee. His interest has always been futurism and moon-shot projects.
Building his Ex Machina home assistant. Watch your inbox closely and you can win the contest to visit his compound.
Having had a high profile in a much smaller community, it can be nice to be forgotten for a while :)
He got sick with an incurable disease which makes him sound like a 80 year old chain smoker, I heard he got a lot less active since then. I bet it made him realize how little money and power can actually do for him so he is focusing more on stuff that matters in his life.
He's still a board member, and if I remember correctly he moved over to the Moonshot factory (X).
He used Google+ a lot.
Somewhere there's an archive of his old posts.
I wondered why he doesn't have a personal website and saw that Sergey Brin, Tim Cook, and Elon Musk don't either. Ended up at gatesnotes.com and signing up for Bill Gates' mailing list.
He's someone that can ensure that there is no news about him.
Wasn't there was some sort of metoo thing that happened with Page, Brin, and Schmidt right before they all stepped down?
No idea about Page, but I do remember walking by Sergey Brin in a microkitchen about two years ago when I was at Google. He was evidently playing around with Tensorflow in Colab. I actually didn't know it was him when I walked by, someone told me who it was after I left the room.
"I can't find any news about him since he left Google." Not even Google can find him.
He’s reading this at the moment since it hit the top of HN, but for the last few hours it was all about Animal Crossing.
It was clear years ago that neither he nor Brin were interested running Google day-to-day anymore. I'm actually surprised that every billionaire doesn't do the same after reaching a certain point of success.
Like..is calling the shots at Facebook really that big a deal that Zuckerberg spends his life being dragged from one mess to another, put in front of Congress every other week, criticized across the political spectrum (which is an achievement in itself)? Does he really not want to take his $110B and do...literally whatever he wants in peace for the rest of his life? Or is it just that he cannot bring himself to trust anyone enough to hand over the reins of Facebook?
It's funny how Larry Page very much seems to like his privacy these days... after taking it from everyone else.