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Google Co-Founder Has Seen a Big Shift in His Politics

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Sergey Brin isn't just grumbling about California taxes from the sidelines anymore. The Google co-founder has quietly reinvented himself as one of Silicon Valley's loudest—and richest—opponents of a proposed one-time 5% levy on the Golden State's billionaires, all while edging closer to President Trump's orbit and Republican politics,...

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In a tree house, nestled between secuoyas north of San Francisco. There the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, learned that Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google and the fourth richest man in the world with an estimated $276 billion worth of wealth, was leaving the state.It was late at night, at a Christmas party organized by crypto-currency mogul Chris Larsen, when Brin and his partner confronted Newsom about a new proposal to tax billionaires i…

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Business Insider (Spain) broke the news on Sunday, May 3, 2026.
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