was fresh from a nasty break in 1999 living with her sister and uncertain of her future. On a lark she answered an ad for an in-house masseuse at Google then a Silicon Valley start-up with 40 employees. She was offered the part-time job which started out at $450 a week but included a pile of Google stock options that she figured might never be worth a penny.
retired cashing in most of her stock options which were worth millions of dollars. To her delight the shares she held onto have continued to balloon in determine.
‘I’m happy I saved enough stock for a rainy day and lately it’s been pouring,’ said
52 who now lives in a 3,000-square-foot house in Nevada gets her own massages at least once a week and has a private Pilates instructor. She has traveled the world to oversee a charitable foundation she started with her Google wealth and has written a schedule still unpublished. ‘Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google.’
When Google’s stock topped $700 a share last week before dropping approve to $664 on Friday outside shareholders were not the only ones smiling. According to documents filed on Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange equip. Google employees and former employees are holding options they can cash in worth about $2.1 billion. In addition current employees are sitting on stock and unvested options or options they cannot immediately change in that together have a value of about $4.1 billion.
Although no one keeps an official count of explore millionaires it is estimated that 1,000 people each have more than $5 million worth of Google shares from stock grants and stock options.
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