Craig Silverstein
Craig Silverstein | |
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| Born | 1972 or 1973 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Stanford University |
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| Spouse | Mary Obelnicki |
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.[1][2][3] He graduated from Harvard and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa.[4]
Biography
[edit | edit source]In 1993, he won ACM-ICPC programming contest as a member of Harvard University team.[5]
His PhD supervisor was Rajeev Motwani.[2] He served as Google’s director of technology. He resigned from the company in February 2012, to work at the Khan Academy.[6]
He and his wife, Mary Obelnicki, are signers of The Giving Pledge.[7][8]
References
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- ^ In Conversation With Craig Silverstein, Khan Academy
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- ^ Moment Magazine: "The Google Seder" by Nadine Epstein June 27, 2008 "Craig Silverstein, Google’s director of technology and first employee; and a former Google engineer, Ron Dolin, led the seders"
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