900 Millionaires - What Would You Do?
The San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting article about some of the 900 millionaires that were made when Google went public. Here are three that I found most interesting.
More than 100 of the original 300 employees have left the company following their new found wealth.
Google employee #53 Charlie Ayers is going to open a restaurant in Palo Alto specializing in organic local foods. He raised $2 million for his restaurant, mostly from former Googlers.
Olana Khan left Google to start a non-profit organazation Kiva.org that does micro-lending to entrepreneurs in developing countries such as Uganda and Ecaudor. (I found this one particularly interesting as Williams and I are launching our own non-profit.)
The other one that would be a dream of mine is the route Aydin Senkut took. He left Google in 2005 to form an angel investing company, Felicis Ventures. He has invested in 17 consumer-oriented Internet start-ups with an average investment of $50,000.
So what would you do if money wasn’t an obstacle anymore?
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