1,300,000

Estimated value, in US dollars, of the Menlo Park, CA property where Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally built their company, Google Inc., at the time it was eventually sold to them in September 8, 2006. Back in 1998, Page and Brin paid $1,700 a month to use the garage of an acquaintance named Susan Wojcicki, who needed extra cash to pay her mortgage. Wojcicki is now Google’s Vice President for Product Development. Brin married her sister, Anne, in May 2007. {link}