Ms Brown ‘Massages’ Google: Hits a Jackpot…
There are many success stories relating to Google’s newly minted millionaires, who are generally software gurus and sales whizzes. Now all assortment of people are becoming millionaires. Ms Bonnie Brown’s — a masseuse’s — success story is worth a read…
“Ms Brown was not in a position to haggle. She was recently divorced and living with her sister, so when a small technology start-up offered her a job in 1999 as a part-time masseuse she took it. The post paid $450 a week, plus a pile of what were then worthless stock options.
“Today, on the back of that package, Ms Brown, Google employee No 41, is a multimillionaire.It is estimated that 1,000 employees, Ms Brown among them, have accrued fortunes worth at least $5 million apiece from the nine-year-old web giant’s rise and rise,” reports The Times.
“The money has flowed from Google’s stranglehold of the hugely lucrative online advertising market (it reported revenues of $7.5 billion in the first half of the year alone) and investors’ seemingly insatiable appetite for the group’s shares. Yesterday, the company, founded in a garage by two students, sported a stock market value of some $207 billion.”
