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Google Founders Worth More Than All US Papers

By Joe Ciarallo on September 23, 2008 2:08 PM

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Here’s an interesting stat: Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin could buy every newspaper in America and still have $12 billion left over. The entire US newspaper business is valued at $20 billion. Brin and Page are worth about $16 billion each.

[Source: Silicon Valley Watcher, via Valleywag]

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