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mathematics instead and became highly skilled in his field, even though it was never what he truly wanted to do. Michael faced constant discrimination while living in Russia, but after attending a mathematics conference in Poland, he realized how different his family’s life could be. At the conference, he was allowed to talk with mathematicians from all over the world, and he realized that he was being treated unfairly. “We cannot stay here anymore,” he told his family after returning home from Poland. Michael insisted that his family leave

Brin’s life growing up in Russia was very different from Page’s American childhood.

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Story of a Startup