Sergey Brin & Bono Up For Gorbachev Awards
What does lead U2 singer Bono and Google co-founder Sergey Brin have in common? They are both in the running for a new award named the Gorbachev Awards. The Telegraph reports the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, is holding an international award designed for honoring “people capable of changing the world.” The award will be […]
Barry Schwartz on March 14, 2011 at 10:25 am | Reading time: 1 minute
What does lead U2 singer Bono and Google co-founder Sergey Brin have in common? They are both in the running for a new award named the Gorbachev Awards.
The Telegraph reports the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, is holding an international award designed for honoring “people capable of changing the world.”
The award will be announced on March 30th at the Royal Albert Hall in Britain. The event is also a gala concert for his 80th Birthday, which was on March 2nd.
Some of the other people up for winning the award include CNN’s founder Ted Turner, movie producer Steven Spielberg, mobile phone inventor Martin Cooper, and Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.