Google Masseuse A Millionaire

[dgridley]

Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce 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.

After five years of kneading engineers’ backs, Ms. Brown 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 value.

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When Google’s stock topped $700 a share last week before dropping back to $664 on Friday, outside shareholders were not the only ones smiling. According to documents filed on Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, 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 cash in, that together have a value of about $4.1 billion.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/t...a6571bf3258ff3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

What's even crazier is: Google hired a masseuse in the first place! We don't get that at Arby's!

 

[Joe]

Well, being NP's resident 'arby' :P I'm willing to massage for several million dollars.

 

[NPQueen]

They tried to hire me, but I told them there was no way I would be able to do a good job for them with all those computer guys around all the time. So I turned them down and became A Domain Groupie instead :lol:

 

[Compassion]

(Bangs head against table)


Why didn't I submit a resume in 1999 when they were posting on the index page they were hiring for many months?

What do you think this could do to the stock price?

So many billions of dollars are on the line. The employess will want to retire just like the massage therapist.

 

[italiandragon]

I love Google.

Goooooooooooooooooooogle.

Too bad I was not there at the right time either.

 

[ZannuZZi]

Google rules IMO.

 

[Frikkle]

I detest google, but nice find anyway.

Cool story.

 

[visoads]

gosh, i'd massage hours in a day just to make that billion