{"id":129804,"date":"2026-01-12T03:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129804\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T03:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:08:12","slug":"google-co-founders-may-be-leaving-california-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/129804\/","title":{"rendered":"Google co-founders may be leaving California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Sergey Brin and Larry Page appear to be reducing their presence in the state where they co-founded Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The New York Times reports that in December, 15 limited liability companies overseeing Brin\u2019s investments and interests were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/09\/technology\/google-founders-california-wealth-tax.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:terminated or converted into Nevada entities;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">terminated or converted into Nevada entities<\/a>. Those include LLCs that manage one of his superyachts and his interest in a private terminal at the San Jose International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Similarly, 45 LLCs associated with Page have recently become inactive or moved out of state, and a trust associated with Page bought a $71.9 million mansion in Miami this week, according to the NYT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Clearly, moving is not a simple, black-and-white thing for the ultra-rich, and Brin and Page both still own homes in the state, the NYT says. Still, these moves suggest that at least two of California\u2019s billionaires are indeed hoping to dodge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/26\/technology\/california-wealth-tax-page-thiel.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a prospective ballot measure;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">a prospective ballot measure<\/a> that would impose a one-time, 5% tax on individuals worth more than $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">If the measure makes it onto the ballot in November and actually passes, it would retroactively apply to anyone who lived in the state as of January 1 of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergey Brin and Larry Page appear to be reducing their presence in the state where they co-founded Google.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,12167,14624,57041,36511,66821],"class_list":{"0":"post-129804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-getty-images","12":"tag-google","13":"tag-larry-page","14":"tag-sergey-brin","15":"tag-t-mobile"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}