The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Google's first employee
Gender:
Male
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Education:
Stanford University
Harvard University
The details
Biography
Introduction
Craig Silverstein (born 1972 or 1973) was the first person employed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google, having studied for a PhD alongside them at Stanford University.He graduated from Harvard and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa.
Biography
In 1993, he won ACM-ICPC programming contest as a member of Harvard University team.
His PhD supervisor was Rajeev Motwani. He served as Google’s director of technology. He resigned from the company in February 2012, to work at the Khan Academy.
He and his wife, Mary Obelnicki, are signers of The Giving Pledge.