Sergey Brin is one of the luckiest motherfuckers alive.
He was born to not one but two accomplished academics. His father was a math professor at the University of Maryland (where Sergey got his undergrad) and his mother was a NASA researcher. His family emigrated here (from Russia) to enjoy a better life.
Looks like that’s, you know, worked out pretty well for him.
If you don’t know his name, here’s some more background. He met his buddy Larry (Page) while they were at Stanford together getting doctorates and discovered a critical relationship between data mining and ranking those results. The rest of the story is essentially “and then they made Google.” (Something they could never have accomplished without Brin’s late ex-wife, Susan Wojcicki.)
Google is, without question or argument, one of the most profitable firms of all time. You could make an argument that is the most successful publicly traded company ever. You know what? Let’s make that argument.
Google is the most successful public company of all time. Sergey, Larry, and Susan were brilliant innovators who also happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right tool.
Today, Brin is worth anywhere between $250-300B on any given day depending on the value of his insane stock portfolio. He could buy most of our lives a million times over if he wanted to. He could give away a tiny percent of his net worth and probably solve the homeless crisis in his state.
If he wanted to.
Instead, he’s spending over $100M to stop the proposed so-called billionaire tax in California, the state that gave him the foundational resources he needed to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful men alive. What an absolute dick.
https://youtube.com/shorts/38c9U5SPH7U?si=GhMb2y4zpRthnNDI
Prop. 40 (aka “the billionaire tax”) would assign a one-time 5% tax on anyone worth north of $1B and the funds would be utilized for low-income healthcare plans, education and more.
And we could go on for another several thousand words (don’t worry, we won’t) about the divisions among California dem leaders who are torn on whether or not this is the right way to extract any value from a group of the most narcissistic goobers in the history of America.
At least the voters get to decide.
God forbid any of these horribly selfish people ever support democracy. Ironic that Brin is crediting his newfound zeal for politics on the Soviet-style socialism he and his family fled, ignoring the very similarities between Trump and post-Soviet Russia.
So much for “Do no evil.”
My Pillow Founder and Professional Election Denialist Mike Lindell Defeated in Minnesota
And he’s accepting the results of the free and fair election. LOL of course he’s not.
