If Larry Brilliant's life were a film, critics would pan the plot as implausible. Trained as a physician, he was studying in an Indian monastery in 1973 when a guru told him to join the UN smallpox vaccination effort. Brilliant helped eradicate the disease from India and eventually the planet. He returned to the US and founded a charity organization, Seva, that has saved millions of people in developing countries from blindness; cofounded the online community the Well; and served as CEO for four tech companies. Oh, and he also found time to march with Martin Luther King Jr. and moonlight as a physician for Jerry Garcia. Last October, Brilliant received a $100,000 TED Prize to further his idea for building a global early-warning system for disease and disaster. Four months later Google hired him to head its charitable arm, Google.org, with an initial bankroll of 3 million shares - worth about $1.15 billion - and 1 percent of annual profits. Brilliant recently suspended a self-imposed "quiet period" to talk about his plans for Google.org.
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机译：如果拉里·布里里安特（Larry Brilliant）的生活是电影，评论家会认为情节令人难以置信。接受过医学培训的他于1973年在印度修道院学习，当时一位大师告诉他参加联合国天花疫苗接种工作。辉煌的帮助从印度乃至整个地球根除了这种疾病。他回到美国，成立了一个慈善组织Seva，该组织已使发展中国家的数百万人免于失明。共同创立了在线社区“ The Well”；并曾担任四家科技公司的首席执行官。哦，他还抽出时间与小马丁·路德·金一起前进，并为杰里·加西亚（Jerry Garcia）担任医师。去年10月，Brilliant获得了100,000美元的TED奖金，以进一步推动他建立全球疾病和灾难预警系统的想法。四个月后，谷歌聘请他领导其慈善部门Google.org，最初的资金为300万股，价值约11.5亿美元，占年利润的1％。 Brilliant最近暂停了一个自我设定的“安静期”，以谈论他对Google.org的计划。
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