19/15 MIT 2005 graduates went to Google/Microsoft. What about Stanford?

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<p>Google was founded by both Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Yahoo was founded by both David Filo and Jerry Yang.</p>

<p>Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan; refer to <a href=“http://www.engin.umich.edu/alumni/engineer/01SS/profiles.html[/url]”>http://www.engin.umich.edu/alumni/engineer/01SS/profiles.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Following his graduation from high school in 1991, he headed to Ann Arbor to enter U-M’s College of Engineering. While there, he received a number of leadership awards for his efforts to improve the environment for students within CoE. He also served as president of the U-M chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the national honor society for electrical and computer engineering students.</p>

<p>Page says his undergraduate experience contained critical components for his future success, especially his involvement with the honor society, a course load that included business classes, and a variety of leadership training experiences.</p>

<p>“I spent a lot of time in Engineering with the organizations in which I was involved, learning about leadership,” Page recalls. “In particular, the ‘LeaderShape’ program was an amazing experience that helped me a lot when we started Google.” (LeaderShape is a University-wide student leader development program that originated in the College of Engineering in 1992.)

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<p>There’s also an interesting quote in that article about his brother, who also went to the University of Michigan for his undergraduate degree:</p>

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Then there’s his brother, Carl, also a graduate of Michigan, with a BSE in computer engineering (1986) and an MSE (1988). He’s now traveling the world after selling his own Internet company—eGroups.com—to Yahoo! for $400 million.

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<p>Sergey Brin, the other co-founder of Google, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland. Refer to <a href=“http://www.cs.umd.edu/alumni/brin.shtml[/url]”>http://www.cs.umd.edu/alumni/brin.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Sergey Brin, Co-founder and President of Technology at Google, Inc., received a Bachelor of Science Degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993.

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<p>David Filo, the co-founder of Yahoo, holds more shares in the company than Yang. File received his undergraduate degree from Tulane University. Filo is the more technical of the two; from the founding date, he was granted more shares than Yang in recognition of Filo’s greater contributions ( Yahoo’s result pages were internally called “Filo Server Pages” before they switched to another technical solution), plus Filo directs the technical operations, and prefers to work in the background, while Yang does the public events stuff. Refer to
<a href=“http://www.eng.tulane.edu/news/2004_filo_donation.php:[/url]”>http://www.eng.tulane.edu/news/2004_filo_donation.php:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Filo, a native of Moss Bluff, Louisiana, was a scholarship student and a Dean’s Honor Scholar while at Tulane. He graduated summa cum laude and was named Tulane’s “top graduate” of 1988. He was the 1997 recipient of the Harold A. Levey Award for Early Career Achievement from the School of Engineering and was the 2001 recipient of the School of Engineering’s Outstanding Alumnus Award. Last year, Filo was elected to the Tulane School of Engineering Hall of Fame. He credits Tulane for much of his success in his relatively short business career.</p>

<p>“That I was able to get into the position to start Yahoo! was in large part due to Tulane,” Filo says. “They gave me a scholarship, without which I probably would never have been able to attend. This gift is my way of contributing to higher education in my home state as well as showing my gratitude for the wonderful education I received at Tulane.”

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