John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google

Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by frankchn on Friday February 02, 2018 @12:01AM (#16288540)

According to [1], Stanford received 1.8 million shares of Google stock (I'd imagine for PageRank and other rights), and they sold it over time for $336 million.

[1] http://www.redorbit.com/news/education/318480/stanford_earns...

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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by hiuaql on Friday February 02, 2018 @12:08AM (#16288561)

If they hadn't sold it in 2005, it would be worth $3.6B now (10x in 12 years), more than 10% of Stanford's total endowment.

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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by hodl on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:33AM (#16289433)

If they hadn't sold it then should they sell it now?

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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by rabidrat on Friday February 02, 2018 @11:48AM (#16291971)

Always sell half, and keep half.

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Re:John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google by admp on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:42AM (#16289462)

$3.6B figure looks about right, but the growth was more like 20x. Don't forget the 2:1 stock split in 2014.

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