Alphabet's stock surge has made its cofounders richer than anyone except Elon Musk

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Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stand with their arms around one another.
Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford.

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Sergey Brin, who came back to Google to work on Gemini, says staying retired would have been a 'big mistake'

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Sergey Brin at 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, on April 5, 2025.
Google cofounder Sergey Brin says a short-lived retirement left him restless — and pulled him back into the race to build Google's Gemini.

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The number of billionaires is on the rise — and they are richer than ever thanks to AI

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Billionaires like Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, have seen their net worths skyrocket during the AI boom.

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Donald Trump summoned Big Tech CEOs to a White House dinner. We decided to zoom in on the seating chart.

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David Sachs, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald and Melania Trump, Bill Gates, Safra Catz, and her husband Gal Tirosh.

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Are the billionaires ditching Burning Man?

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Burning Man
Burning Man has become known for drawing rich tech entrepreneurs, like the Google cofounders and Musk brothers.

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See the largest yachts owned by tech billionaires, from Sergey Brin's new Dragonfly to Jeff Bezos's Koru

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Mark Zuckerberg/Launchpad yacht
Mark Zuckerberg's Launchpad, which set sail in 2024, cost nine figures and is one of the largest superyachts owned by a tech billionaire.

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Sergey Brin gave a $500 million donation to his own nonprofit

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It looks like Google cofounder Sergey Brin is selling his superyacht

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Dragonfly yacht
Sergey Brin's yacht Dragonfly has been listed for sale for $30 million.

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Hundreds of private planes are touching down at a makeshift airport for billionaire favorite Burning Man

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Burning Man
Burning Man has become a favorite event for the rich tech set.

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Here's why the creator of Gmail thinks Google fell behind in the AI arms race

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