And while Google was going IPO in 2004 making Brin an instant billionaire, Selukoff was scraping by in Moscow, running a factory manufacturing compact discs.
While Brin was writing the code with Larry Page for what became the Google search engine, Selukoff was the tour manager for a Russian boy band.
While Brin was studying computer science at Stanford, Selukoff was selling used imported BMWs to newly-capitalist Russians. While Brin grew up in the 80s with easy access to desktop PCs, Selukoff learned programming from library books. with his family when he was 6 years old and took a now-familiar immigrant wunderkind route to tech stardom, Selukoff’s success not only came much later, but almost never happened. But unlike the Google co-founder, who arrived in the U.S. That happens to be the same age as another successful Russian-born high-tech entrepreneur residing in the Silicon Valley, Sergey Brin. Yuri Selukoff, the creator of the popular PDF rea der app for iPhone and iPad, GoodReader, is 42.
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