This lady’s name is Bonnie Brown. She’s a skillionaire. She wasn’t always rich, though. Back in 1999, she was making $450 a week as a masseuse for Google, which at that time had 40 employees. Boy oh boy, Google must have known it was going to be huge to hire a masseuse for only 40 people. The last company I worked for had over 300 people and there was no masseuse and no free food except for a temperamental popcorn machine.
Anyway, when Bonnie left Google, the stock was at $85 per share. It recently just broke $700 per share. She’s a smart lady for holding onto it until now. Lucky, too, because she has her own masseuse now. My how the padded tables with face holes have turned.
Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire [New York Times]
and why is this on crunchgear? (btw – it’s already on techcrunch)
Hi,
Bonnie has a Web site: http://www.GiigleBook.com – you can go there to find out more about Bonnie and read excerpts from her hilarious book, Giigle: How I Got Lucky Massaging Google.
It’s on CrunchGear because I typed a collective smattering of words and hit the Publish button when those words had been arranged somewhat coherently. And already on TechCrunch? The TechCrunch article links to this one. That’s one fierce bending of the space-time continuum if this article here was somehow linked-to before it had been written.
Hey Doug, can you write an article on how you do that space-time continuum bending thingy? It would really help me manage my workload a lot better if I could get work done before I actually do it. :) You’re so funny.
Bonnie’s book is now for sale on her web site: http://www.giiglebook.com – and it will ship to almost every country in the world.