Shares brought masseuse millions

In 1999, the start-up company Google offered Bonnie Brown, an ordinary masseuse, work for $ 450 a week and a share package, from which, as Brown believed, there would hardly be any use ...

Years passed, and Google from the "company of the garage" turned into a corporation.
After 5 years of work, Boney left Google and cashed out her shares and received about two million dollars.
Last week, Google stock prices reached $ 700.

The ex-masseuse spent part of the proceeds to buy a huge house in Nevada, and also set up a charitable foundation. Soon, Brown plans to agree with the publisher on the release of his already written book, “Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google.”
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According to a report that Google recently filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the total value of shares owned by current and former employees of the company exceeds $ 2.1 billion. The stakes held by the company's chief executives, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are equivalent to $ 19.6 and $ 20 billion in cash, respectively. In this case, both receive a formal annual salary of $ 1. Millionaires are about 1,000 employees of the company - each of them holds a share worth about $ 5 million. In 2007, Google’s stock price rose by 44%, shares went up by an average of $ 203.

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Original on the New York Times