Page Sells Shares, Joins XPrize Board, Honored at Demo@15
Here are a couple of items about Mr. Page and Mr. Brin that have recently crossed our desks.
+ If I added it up correctly, Larry Page sold about 330,000 GOOG shares (filings here and here) in a planned sale on Tuesday. Shares sold in the $202-$204 range for about $67 million.
+ Last week, Page was named to X Prize Foundation Board of Trustees.
+ Larry and Sergey will be recoginized at the DEMO@15 conference next month as two of the top innovators of the past 15 years. Six Apart, TiVo, and Marc Andreessen are some of the members of this group.
Fun fact #1: "Wow, you looked at a lot of pages from my web site. How did you like it?" - people encountering a crawler for the first time. This and other quality snippets pulled from the original paper presenting Google in 1997.
Vic Gundotra, the driving force behind the Google+ platform, has announced he is leaving Google, which has many people pondering the future of Google+. Gundotra, who has been with Google for eight years, is leaving the company effective immediately.
Google has revealed profits for the first quarter of 2014 of $3.45 billion, up from $3.35 billion in the same period last year, but its average cost-per-click income has fallen by 9 percent year-over-year.
