The Private Jet Collection of Google Founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin

Interesting follow up article from 2020: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techtransparencyproject.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fighter-jet-and-friends-congress-how-google-got-access-nasa-airfield" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techtransparencyproject.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;fighter-jet...</a>

&quot;Sergey, you can have whatever bed you want in your room; Larry, you can have whatever kind of bed you want in your bedroom. Let&#x27;s move on.&quot;<p>How is it helpful?

Disgusting. People this wealthy exist on a whole other plane (ha) of existence. No one individual works so hard as to earn multiple, giant private jets. The huge amount of natural and social resources being consumed by just a few individuals is mind-boggling. Meanwhile, people are going to freeze to death under bridges this winter because we can&#x27;t seem to build enough modest affordable housing in this country.

Sort of related question.<p>Many years ago I was friend with a middle manager at Google that told me Larry or Sergei wanted to turn the roof on one of the buildings into a helipad. The intent was to never have to walk onto the campus but just land the helicopter, get out, go down and elevator to a conference room, reverse path to the helicopter and leave. Apparently the building they wanted to do it on wasn’t structurally sound to facilitate a helipad.<p>Anyone from Google know this story?

But… why? These aren’t even small private jets, they are like… huge commercial airliners. Why own such things as private citizens?

A blimp covered with advertising would be more appropriate.<p>.