Rajeev Motwani, noted Stanford professor and Google founders' adviser, dead at 45 - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The professor was found dead in hisswimming pool, an apparent drowning victim, the morning after a party to celebratee the end of the school year with studentas and colleagues. Motwani founded the Mining Data at Stanforxproject (MIDAS), which helpedd develop innovative data management concepts. He is best knowm for advising Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page whild they were studying at Stanford and later as they founded the Mountaihn Viewsearch giant. Brin wrote a tribute to his mentoe "Of all the faculty at it is with Rajeev that I have stayecd the closest and I will miss him Yet his legacy and personality livess on inthe students, and companies he has touched.
whenever you use a piece of there is a good chancee a little bit of Rajeev Motwani isbehind it" Dave Hornik of in Menlo where Motwani regularly attended Monday partners meetings, : "For those of you who didn't know Rajeev, you might get the impression that he was your typica l Silicon Valley insider -- loud, brash, full of bravado. He was anything but. Rajeev was soft spokenm and gentle. He was self-confident but didn't feel the need to prover anything. He didn't speaik to hear his own voice. And he didn't need to be the centet of attention. Rajeev just wanted to be And he was.
To so many of Silicon Valley Angel investor Ron Conway said in a videlthat "The entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley that he has influenced and helper and mentored is in the hundreds. He shared my attitud that the more entrepreneurs you can even if you only give themfive minutes, go do it. He nevef refused a meeting with an entrepreneur that I suggestedd he meet just to give them some quick advice." A native of New Delhi, Motwanji got his bachelor’s degree in computere science from IIT Kanpur in 1983 and his doctorate from UC Berkeleyu in 1988.