主题：google这次可能是创始人和董事会之间的斗争。 -- songcla

Google退出中国始作俑者Sergey Brin准备退出google

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Sergey Brin and Larry Page, co-founders of

Google Inc. who still own nearly one-fifth of the Internet giant, disclosed

Friday that they intend to significantly reduce their stake by selling

roughly $5.5 billion worth of stock.

In a regulatory filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, Brin and

Page, who started Google /quotes/comstock/15*!goog/quotes/nls/goog (GOOG 546

.00, -4.01, -0.73%) as graduate students at Stanford University, disclosed

that under a five-year "diversification plan" adopted in November, they'll

be selling 5 million shares each.

Brin and Page currently own roughly 57.7 million shares of common stock in

Google, or about 18% of its outstanding capital stock. Their diversification

plan is intended "to allow Larry and Sergey to sell a portion of their

Google stock over time as part of their respective long-term strategies for

individual asset diversification and liquidity," according to the regulatory

filing.

At Google's closing stock price of $550.01 on Friday, the company co-

founders' sale of stock would result in proceeds of roughly $2.75 billion

each.

Brin and Page have maintained significant ownership stakes in Google, while

also relying on a dual-class stock structure at the company that currently

grants them about 59% of the voting power of the company's outstanding

capital stock.

After their planned five years of stock sales, their voting power would be

reduced to roughly 48%, according to the regulatory filing.

Google shares dipped 55 cents to $547 in after-hours trading.

Google's stock price has been on a wild ride over the past two years,

veering toward $250 in late 2008, before mounting a steady recovery

throughout 2009.

Early last year, Google took the unusual step of re-setting stock options

for employees