Another founder of a tech giant and the world's top billionaire is divorced!
On June 18, Brin, the co-founder of Google and the sixth richest man in the world, filed for divorce. It is reported that Brin has more than 90 billion US dollars in assets.
In recent years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Bezos, and Microsoft founder Gates have all divorced.
Google co-founder Brin files for divorce
According to Jiemian News, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and the sixth richest man in the world, has filed for divorce from his wife of three years.
Brin filed an application to dissolve his marriage to Nicole Shanahan this month, citing “irreconcilable differences,” according to court documents. The pair already have a three-year-old child and have taken steps to keep details of the divorce private, asking the court to seal the documents. “Due to the high profile of their relationship, there may be significant public interest in their divorce case and any potential child custody issues,” the document states.
According to data from several foreign media, Brin is worth more than 90 billion US dollars , most of which comes from his holdings in Google. He is the sixth-richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
In 1998, Brin and Larry Page co-founded Google, which was later reorganized into Alphabet, the holding company. Both left Alphabet in 2019, but remain board members and controlling shareholders.
According to the Daily Mail, Brin asked for shared custody of the children and not for Shanahan to provide child support. However, he also requested that child support not be paid to Shanahan.
Brin, who was previously married, announced his divorce from then-wife Anne Wojcicki in 2015.
According to public information, Nicole Shanahan is a lawyer in California and a researcher at CodeX, the Center for Legal Informatics at Stanford University. Shanahan is a Chinese girl with a Chinese mother.
Monica Mazzei, a partner at San Francisco law firm Sideman & Bancroft LLP, believes that Brin and Shanahan may have signed a prenup because their relationship began when Brin became a billionaire, according to Phoenix Network Technology. It started a long time later. However, with the case being handled by a private judge, “we will never know the details of the divorce”.
Musk, Bezos, Gates are divorced
It is worth noting that in recent years, Tesla CEO Musk, Amazon founder Bezos, and Microsoft founder Gates have all divorced.
When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott divorced in 2019, Scott received $36 billion worth of Amazon stock.
McKenzie's net worth soared after receiving a huge divorce fortune. According to the “Forbes” real-time rich list, McKenzie is currently ranked 22nd, with a net worth of $58.1 billion, and is the third richest woman in the world, after Françoise Bettencourt Meyers from L'Oreal. and Alice Walton, the only child of her family and Walmart founder Sam Walton.
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