Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire
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. Although no one keeps an official count of Google millionaires, it is
estimated that 1,000 people each have more than $5 million worth of
Google shares from stock grants and stock options.
