On 27 November 2025, the world’s richest list is being reshaped almost in real time by the artificial intelligence boom — and Google co‑founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are right at the center of it.
According to the latest Forbes Real‑Time Billionaires data, as reported by Indian Express and LiveMint, Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk remains the world’s richest person with an estimated net worth of $480.5 billion. Larry Page is now firmly in second place with about $262.2 billion, while Oracle founder Larry Ellison has climbed back to third with $256.4 billion. Sergey Brin, who briefly held the No. 3 spot earlier this week, has slipped to fourth with around $243.1 billion after a pullback in Alphabet’s share price. [1]
A Volatile Week for Google’s Billionaire Founders
This has been one of the most dramatic weeks in recent memory for the Google founders’ fortunes:
- Mid‑November: Page first jumped into the global top three after the launch of Google’s new AI model Gemini 3, which triggered a sharp rally in Alphabet stock and pushed his wealth above Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. [2]
- 25 November: A fresh surge in Alphabet shares propelled Page to No. 2 and Brin to No. 3 on the global rich list, both overtaking Oracle’s Larry Ellison, according to reports using Forbes real‑time data. [3]
- Today, 27 November: After two days as the world’s third‑richest person, Brin fell back to fourth place as Alphabet stock eased and Oracle rebounded. Ellison’s net worth jumped by almost $9 billion in a single day to roughly $256.4 billion, allowing him to reclaim the No. 3 spot. [4]
LiveMint notes that Brin’s wealth dropped about $2.5 billion (around 1%) in just one day, while Ellison’s gains were fueled by a more than 4% rise in Oracle shares and a reassessment by analysts who argued markets had under‑priced the company’s AI business and massive $500 billion contract backlog. [5]
Despite the volatility, Page has held onto second place throughout this week’s turbulence, underlining just how strongly Alphabet’s AI story is resonating with investors.
How AI — and Gemini 3 — Supercharged Larry Page’s Net Worth
Larry Page’s ascent back into the very top tier of global wealth is tightly linked to Google’s push in generative AI:
- Times of India and other outlets trace Page’s recent surge to Gemini 3, Google’s latest flagship large language model, which has been hailed by some analysts as a serious challenger to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. [6]
- The model family — including Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 3 Deep Think — runs entirely on Google’s custom TPU (tensor processing unit) chips, a strategic bet that puts Alphabet in more direct competition with Nvidia in AI infrastructure. [7]
- A report that Meta is in talks to deploy Google’s TPUs in its data centers from 2027, and possibly rent them via Google Cloud as soon as next year, further boosted Alphabet’s prospects and share price. [8]
Alphabet stock has been on a tear in 2025:
- One Stocktwits‑syndicated analysis notes that Alphabet shares are up about 70–71% year‑to‑date, outpacing both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq‑tracking QQQ ETF. [9]
- The same report and Indian Express data indicate Alphabet is hovering near a $4 trillion market valuation, with only a small further share price move needed to cross the mark. [10]
Because Page owns just over 3% of Alphabet (and controls a large block of high‑voting Class B shares), every big swing in the stock adds or erases tens of billions from his net worth. Multiple outlets estimate that Alphabet’s 2025 rally has added more than $80 billion to his wealth this year alone. [11]
Larry Page Net Worth Today — and the Education Journey Behind It
As of late 27 November 2025, Larry Page’s fortune stands around $262.2 billion, placing him second only to Elon Musk. [12]
But the story behind that number stretches from a childhood full of computers to a Stanford PhD project that became Google.
Early life and schooling
Times of India’s deep dive into Page’s education and career sketches a childhood in Lansing, Michigan, in a house where computers were as ordinary as furniture. His father taught computer science and his mother taught programming; technical manuals and old machines were scattered around, and Page was the kind of child who took devices apart to see how they worked. [13]
Key milestones from his early years:
- Attended Okemos Montessori School, where an emphasis on curiosity and self‑directed learning suited his tinkering nature.
- Graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991.
- Studied at the University of Michigan, earning a Bachelor’s in Engineering (Computer Engineering). While there, he:
- Helped build an inkjet printer from Lego bricks.
- Joined the solar‑car team.
- Proposed an automated monorail to replace campus buses — early hints of his obsession with large‑scale systems. [14]
Stanford and the birth of PageRank
Page moved to Stanford University for graduate study in computer science, first a master’s and then a PhD program. While searching for a research topic, he became fascinated by the structure of the World Wide Web and how links between pages could be used to measure importance. [15]
Working with fellow PhD student Sergey Brin, he turned that idea into PageRank, an algorithm that ranked web pages based on incoming links. What began as a dissertation problem quickly became a working search engine that outperformed the incumbents — the foundation of Google in 1998. [16]
From CEO to quiet controlling shareholder
Page’s leadership path has been just as unconventional:
- First CEO of Google from its early days until 2001.
- Returned as CEO in 2011 to unify Google’s sprawling product line.
- Became the founding CEO of Alphabet when Google reorganized in 2015.
- Stepped down from day‑to‑day executive roles in 2019, but stayed on the board, as an employee, and as a controlling shareholder through super‑voting Class B shares. [17]
Today, Page and Brin together hold nearly 88% of Alphabet’s Class B stock, giving them decisive control despite owning a much smaller economic stake in the company. Page’s slightly larger holding — roughly 389 million shares versus Brin’s 362.7 million — is one reason his net worth consistently sits above his co‑founder’s. [18]
Sergey Brin’s Roller‑Coaster Week: From No. 3 to No. 4
If Page’s story this month is one of steady ascent, Sergey Brin’s is a case study in how quickly tech fortunes can swing.
Earlier this week:
- On 25 November, LiveMint reported that Brin’s net worth had jumped to $248.4 billion, a one‑day gain of about $6.4 billion, pushing him to third place worldwide, just behind Page and Musk. [19]
- A combined $35+ billion was added to the wealth of Page and Brin over just a couple of days as Alphabet shares surged on AI optimism and the prospect of TPUs powering external customers like Meta. [20]
By today:
- LiveMint’s fresh update shows Brin’s net worth has fallen back to roughly $243.1 billion, a drop of about $2.5 billion in one day, nudging him down to fourth place on the Forbes real‑time list.
- Ellison overtook him again thanks to Oracle’s stock rally, while Page stayed put in second. [21]
Brin’s background: from Moscow to Mountain View
Brin’s own education and immigration story is central to Google’s history:
- Born in Moscow in 1973, he emigrated to the United States with his family at age six.
- Studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Maryland, graduating with honors.
- Joined Stanford’s computer science PhD program, where he met Page; together, the pair built the search engine that became Google in 1998. [22]
Brin served for years as president of Google (and later Alphabet), focusing heavily on ambitious “moonshot” projects — from self‑driving cars to experimental hardware — before stepping away from daily operations. He still owns a multi‑billion‑dollar stake in Alphabet and, according to several reports, has become more visible again around the company’s AI labs as Gemini 3 and TPUs move to center stage. [23]
Larry Ellison’s Comeback: Oracle’s AI Narrative Bites Back
The latest reshuffle isn’t just about Alphabet. It’s also about Oracle and the market’s evolving view of who really wins in the AI infrastructure race.
A Forbes report, summarized by BitcoinEthereumNews and MEXC, describes how:
- Oracle shares rebounded by more than 4%, to around $205, after sliding about 35% from their late‑October highs, as analysts at Deutsche Bank and HSBC argued investors had been too pessimistic on Oracle’s AI cloud business. [24]
- That rebound added roughly $8.9–9 billion to Ellison’s net worth in a single session, lifting him back to No. 3 globally with an estimated $256.4 billion fortune. [25]
At the same time, Alphabet’s shares slipped just over 1%, ending a roughly 13% mini‑rally that started last Friday — enough to push Brin down a notch while leaving Page comfortably at No. 2. [26]
The rapid back‑and‑forth between Ellison and Brin illustrates how fine the margins are at the top of the billionaire rankings in the AI era: a couple of percentage points of stock movement can shuffle tens of billions of dollars and multiple spots on the leaderboard overnight.
Today’s Top 10 Richest People in the World (27 November 2025)
Based on Forbes real‑time data as compiled by Indian Express and LiveMint, here’s the current global top 10 as of Wednesday’s market close (figures approximate): [27]
- Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX) – about $480.5 billion
- Larry Page (Google / Alphabet) – about $262.2 billion
- Larry Ellison (Oracle) – about $256.4 billion
- Sergey Brin (Google / Alphabet) – about $243.1 billion
- Jeff Bezos (Amazon) – about $241.0 billion
- Mark Zuckerberg (Meta/Facebook) – about $217.4 billion
- Bernard Arnault & family (LVMH) – about $186–186.6 billion
- Jensen Huang (semiconductors, Nvidia‑linked wealth) – about $156.6 billion
- Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway) – about $151.5 billion
- Michael Dell (Dell Technologies) – about $151.1 billion
Indian Express also notes that nine of these ten billionaires are American, with Arnault the lone non‑US entrant, and that there are now over 3,000 billionaires worldwide with a combined fortune above $16 trillion. [28]
Why Google’s Founders Still Matter So Much to Alphabet’s AI Future
Although Sundar Pichai has been CEO of Google and Alphabet for years, Page and Brin remain central to the company’s strategic direction for two reasons:
- Control through super‑voting shares
- Their dominance over Class B stock means they effectively control Alphabet’s long‑term strategy, even with relatively modest economic stakes compared with the entire float. [29]
- Deep roots in AI and infrastructure
- Gemini 3 and TPUs sit atop infrastructure and research priorities that trace directly back to the founding vision of organizing the world’s information and building highly scalable computing systems — the same problems Page’s early research at Stanford tried to solve. [30]
This week’s wealth rankings are a financial reflection of a bigger story: Alphabet has successfully convinced markets that it’s not just catching up in AI, but shaping the underlying platforms — chips, models, and cloud infrastructure — that others will depend on. Whether that narrative holds will determine whether Page and Brin stay near the very top of the list, or cede ground again to rivals like Ellison, Bezos, or Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.
What to Watch Next
For investors and tech watchers following the billionaire leaderboard, a few key questions now loom:
- Will Alphabet finally cross the $4 trillion valuation mark? It’s close enough that a renewed AI‑driven rally could push it over — or a broader “AI bubble” scare could knock it back. [31]
- Can Oracle sustain its rebound? If analysts are right that its AI business is undervalued, Ellison might cement his hold on No. 3 — but another leg down in the stock could hand the spot back to Brin. [32]
- How fast will Gemini 3 adoption grow? Deals with major partners like Meta, as well as uptake of TPUs by AI startups, will be critical to whether Alphabet’s AI story keeps driving wealth creation for its founders. [33]
For now, on 27 November 2025, the picture is clear: Larry Page is the world’s second‑richest person, Sergey Brin is back to fourth, and both owe their extraordinary fortunes to a combination of early academic curiosity, bold bets on search and AI — and a stock market that is still trying to decide who will truly win the race to build the future of artificial intelligence.
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