November 13, 2007

Googles Masseuse one in a million

In 1999 Bonnie Brown was living with her sister after just coming through a divorce, keen to start a new life for herself she answered an ad for the position of “In House Masseuse” with a start up company called “Google” they were based in Silicon Valley and had forty employees.

She started the part time position earning $450 per week plus something called “Stock Options” obviously this paper money would never be worth anything, it never is, and as the saying goes, the rest is history!

She worked for Google for only five years, cashing some of the shares when she left, these were then worth millions of dollars. But being shrewd she held onto to some too, of which she recently sold and who can blame her the reached $700 per share recently though at the moment are fixed at around $665.

Google have made many people millionaires, at as it stands there are around a 1000 people who hold around $5 million worth of stock options each!

Source [NY Times]

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