• Google's cofounder Larry Page made an appearance at a Y Combinator meeting in December.
• He spoke to a group from the fall 2024 class of startups.
• He talked about the origins of Google and listened to founders talk about their startups.

Google's cofounder Larry Page made a rare public appearance last month during a Y Combinator event for startups in San Francisco, Business Insider has learned.

Page showed up at an "office hour" for a group from the fall 2024 class of startups during the final days of the event, where he listened to founders talk about their business ideas, a person who attended said. Lulu Meservey, a Y Combinator spokesperson, confirmed Page's attendance at the event.

Y Combinator is a startup incubator that holds seasonal classes — known as "batches" — where budding startup founders can network and get advice from Silicon Valley luminaries.

Page was brought along to the event by the Y Combinator group partner Paul Buchheit, the attendee said, adding that Page also shared some anecdotes about the early days of Google. The person asked to remain anonymous because they had not been permitted to speak with the media about the event.

A public sighting of Page is extremely rare these days.

He and his Google cofounder, Sergey Brin, stepped away from their executive roles at Alphabet in 2019, giving the pair time to pursue other business interests such as flying cars and disaster relief. The pair still sit on the Alphabet board and hold shares of a special voting stock that gives them ultimate control of the company.

While Brin has returned to work on AI projects at Google, Page has remained more distant. He continues to financially support Pivotal, a startup working on electric vertical-take-off and -landing vehicles.

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