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Dec 3, 2018 · Craig Silverstein, a twenty-seven-year-old with a small frame and a high voice, sat by the far wall. Silverstein was Google’s first employee: he’d joined the company when its offices were in...
Craig Silverstein (born 1972 or 1973) is a software engineer and was the first person employed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google, having studied for a PhD alongside them (though he dropped out and never earned his degree) at Stanford University.
- Sergey Brin. Google's co-founder Sergey Brin no longer needs to work for a living; he's currently the eighth-richest person in the world, thanks in part to his co-inventing the search algorithms that made Google what it is today.
- Larry Page. Like Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Larry Page is 50 years old and one of the wealthiest people on the planet, with a net worth over $100 billion.
- Susan Wojcicki. Technically, Susan Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee, but she's actually been involved with the company even longer than that. It was her and her husband's garage in Menlo Park that Larry Page and Sergey Brin first operated out of after founding their startup.
- Marissa Mayer. Marissa Mayer was either the 20th or 21st employee (according to various sources) at Google, joining the young company in 1999. Notably, she was the first female engineer to work there.
Apr 10, 2022 · In 2014, Inside Philanthropy reports that Silverstein and his wife, Mary, signed the Giving Pledge, vowing to contribute most of their post-Google wealth to charitable causes. Thus far, their philanthropic focus has been on helping poverty and women's education in the developing world.
- Nicholas Conley
Craig Silverstein & Mary Obelnicki. One is now two (make that three). We got married in 2012, joining forces in our lives and in our philanthropy. Fortunately, our approaches are remarkably aligned. Long before we met, Mary fused analytical thinking with social change. At MIT, she alternated taking classes with working with the Girl Scouts.
Google's first employee, Craig Silverstein, and Mary Obelnicki, join Alberto Lidji to talk about philanthropy, Echidna Giving (their Foundation) and signing The Giving Pledge.
Aug 30, 2010 · Craig Silverstein has been there from the start. He joined Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 to become the company's first employee.
