If you've read my blog for a while, you already know how much I admire the vision behind Google, a company whose wonderful tools have revolutionized how we use the World Wide Web.

One could argue the Internet "tsunami" that now is Google started with a very difficult decision by Russian Jewish parents to leave their native Moscow for a better life for their son in America in 1979. Their son was Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google.

I suspect you'll enjoy this fascinating read and inspirational story of how Brin immigrated from Russia to eventually develop, along with his business partner Larry Page, the best search engine in the world and became one of the world's wealthiest people in his 30s, as a result.

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