Stanford sold its 1.8M Google shares for $336M in 2005 — worth ~$25B today
sahilypatel · x · 2026-10-11
Stanford University received 1.8 million Google shares in exchange for the PageRank patent. It sold them in 2005 for $336 million. Today those shares would be worth roughly $25 billion — one of history's most regrettable tech patent exits.
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