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Craig Silverstein

Craig Silverstein

Google's first employee

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]

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Biography

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

  1. [1]
    "Google Milestones". Google, Inc. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Craig Silverstein's website". Stanford University. Archived from the original on October 2, 1999. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  3. [3]
    Kopytoff, Verne (September 7, 2008). "Craig Silverstein grew a decade with Google". San Francisco Chronicle. Hearst Communications, Inc. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  4. [4]
    In Conversation With Craig Silverstein, Khan Academy
  5. [5]
    "The 1993 World Champions: Harvard University". icpc.global.
  6. [6]
    Swisher, Kara. "Google's Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein Departs". AllThingsD. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
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    givingpledge.org
  8. [8]
    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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