How Larry Page And Sergey Brin Tricked Ex-Google CEO To Invent Chrome How Larry Page And Sergey Brin Tricked Ex-Google CEO To Invent Chrome Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University where they studied for their PhD s in computer science. The duo launched Google in 1998
Eric Schmidt revealed the story behind Google Chrome s invention in 2015.
Eric Emerson Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, in a 2015 lecture at Stanford University, revealed how Google s web browser Chrome was invented. In a minute-long video posted on Twitter by Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Mr Schmidt said that Larry Page and Sergey Brin the CEO and President of Google s parent company, Alphabet would play tricks on him, and one such trick led to the creation of Google Chrome.