Why didn't they ask me to buy shares at 6 cents a pop?! Poor Bezos, he's going to get even richer.
Google, operator of the most widely used search engine on the Internet, disclosed in a securities filing that Bezos was one of the company's first five outside investors. The group, which also includes former Amazon.com executive Ram Shriram, paid 6 cents a share for Google stock in late 1998, according to the documents.
Bezos, 40, already has built a personal fortune of $5.1 billion, according to Forbes, by turning Seattle-based Amazon.com into the world's largest online retailer. He is set to reap further rewards as Google prepares to raise $2.7 billion through its IPO, a record first-time stock sale for an Internet company.
1. I'm not suprised he got in like that, his spinoff company A9.com is basically rebranded Google results.
Posted at 4:40AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Mutant