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Google's Sergey Brin saw his fortune drop by $1.1 billion in the past year thanks to a 3% dip in the search giant's stock. While cofounder Larry Page replaced Eric Schmidt as CEO last year, Brin has been heading up special projects, reportedly including a secretive hardware laboratory known as Google X. Among the rumored projects: a pair of augmented-reality glasses that would allow the wearer to see Google Maps while walking. The son and grandson of mathematicians on his father's side, Brin emigrated from Russia at age 6. His mother was a research scientist at NASA. He met co-founder Page in a computer science Ph.D. program at Stanford and dropped out in 1998 to start Google from a friend's garage. The two share a 767 jet. Brin is also an investor in Airship Ventures and private space travel company Space Adventures. He has become a benefactor for research into Parkinson's disease, after finding out he has a genetic mutation increasing the odds he'll get it. (His wife, Anne Wojcicki, is the cofounder of personal genetics company 23andMe, through which he learned of his condition.) Brin practices diving, yoga and acrobatics to lower the odds he'll develop the disease. [...] more
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