Craig Silverstein (born 1972 or 1973) is a software engineer and was the first person employed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at

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, having studied for a PhD alongside them (though he dropped out and never earned his degree) at

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. He graduated from Harvard and was admitted to

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Biography

In 1993, he won ACM-ICPC programming contest as a member of

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team. His PhD supervisor was Rajeev Motwani. He served as Google’s director of technology. He resigned from the company in February 2012, to work at the

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. He and his wife, Mary Obelnicki, are signers of The Giving Pledge.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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