“Today brings news from the Googleplex of unfortunate domestic drama,” Brad Stone reports for Businessweek. “Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife of six years, 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki, are living separately. A person familiar with the situation calls the split difficult but ‘absolutely amicable.’ The couple has been married for six years and has two young children.”
“The news was first reported by the technology news site AllThingsD, which said Brin is now in a romantic relationship with another Google employee,” Stone reports. “The Bloomberg Billionaire Index pegs Brin’s net worth at $24.5 billion. The couple has a prenuptial agreement, so any potential divorce is unlikely to affect governance of the company.”
Stone reports, “Still, splits can be messy, especially in the small world of Silicon Valley’s elite… Wojcicki’s sister, Susan, is a senior vice president at Google and a member of Larry Page’s management team.”
Full article here.
“Brin and Wojcicki, both 40 years old, had been married for six years and have two children. They are not yet legally separated,” Liz Gannes reports for AllThingsD. “The possibility of a reconciliation of the pair is unclear, since Brin has become romantically involved with a Google employee, according to sources. This is further complicated by the fact that that employee had also at one point been involved with another Googler [see related article below].”
“While this is obviously sad and very personal news, it also has many business implications,” Gannes reports. “Brin and Wojcicki have many other well-known joint business efforts. They include Wojcicki’s personal-genomics startup 23andMe, which sells DNA test kits and helps users interpret their traits and health conditions. The company has raised more than $100 million from backers, including Google, Google Ventures and Brin himself.”
“According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Wojcicki and Brin gave away $223 million in 2012, the fifth-most for donors in the U.S., and they each contributed $190.1 million to their Brin Wojcicki Foundation. The foundation’s beneficiaries include the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia), the Ashoka Foundation (social entrepreneurship), the Tipping Point Community (poverty in the Bay Area) and the Parkinson’s Institute,” Gannes reports. “A spokesman said Brin and Wojcicki would continue to work on all these endeavors together.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take:
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Six months after Andy Rubin’s departure, Android VP Hugo Barra leaving Google for Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi – August 29, 2013
its always the same story no matter how geeky they are…here is info about the wife anne she has a fortune of her own so dont really need this guy http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/tv/anne-wojcicki-googles-co-founder-sergey-brins-wife/
$$ and di*k don’t mixed well together!!
His wife should go to the Court and ask his husband be deported back to Mother Russia.
Young woman after rich man very common. Nothing to be surprised here. Love & friendship needs to be FREE.
Sweet sweat. The mistress is half Asian and half Jewish. So her armpits either don’t sweat at all, or they do profusely.
Even Charlie Harper knew that you don’t dip your pen in company ink 🙂
Reportedly, THIS is the other shoe dropping:
Tangled web sees Android head Hugo Barra leaving Google for China’s Xiaomi
AllThingsD reports that Barra’s departure also comes after upheaval in his personal life. It says he recently ended a relationship with another worker at Google, reportedly a member of the Google Glass team – who is now, AllThingsD reports, in a relationship with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who has recently split from his wife Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of the genetic testing company 23andme.
…AND it turns out that AllThingsD has changed it’s mind about the entanglement of these two issues:
http://allthingsd.com/20130828/androids-hugo-barra-departs-google-for-chinas-xiaomi/
That Googler is now seeing the company’s co-founder Sergey Brin, but sources said his decision to leave the company is unrelated and was made before he was aware of the new relationship. As AllThingsD reported earlier today, Brin has split with his wife, and is in involved with another Google employee, a difficult and fraught situation.
Must be a slow day in the MDN newsroom — now they resort to personal stories of employees from companies not even related to Apple. Can we keep the Mac news to Apple related topics please? It’s bad enough reading a lot of Apple rumours based on half-truths and wishful thinking. Until Apple makes an announcement, everything is speculation and analyst-stock-spinning stories. It’s sure true that when somebody doesn’t get enough information, they make it up! Apple is a publicly traded company and cannot make product announcements at interviews without letting the market know first in a press release. It’s the Securities Exchange Committee rules. It’s a perception that Apple is “secretive” when they are just following SEC guidelines, just like every other listed company. I understand we all long for news from Apple. But, wishing for it more does not make them more secretive.
prenuptial agreement…
That’s week…
Weak*
Was what I meant of course.