With Google's Market Cap Topping $3 Trillion, Larry And Sergey Are Now Worth $426 Billion Combined (Which Is Still Less Than One Elon)

In April 2021, Google's market cap topped $1.5 trillion for the first time. When that happened, the company's two co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both joined the centibillionaire club for the first time (net worth greater than $100 billion). That was roughly 1,600 days ago.

A lot has happened in those 1,600 days. The internet giant endured intensifying political scrutiny, two major antitrust trials, and historic guilty verdicts.

In August 2024, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search. After months of wrangling over potential punishments, Mehta delivered remedies on September 2, 2025. His order required Google to scale back exclusive distribution deals, share some search data with rivals, and submit to six years of oversight. Crucially, he stopped short of breaking up the company or forcing it to spin off Chrome, a decision widely seen as a slap on the wrist.

Meanwhile, a second case was unfolding. In April 2025, Judge Leonie Brinkema found Google guilty of monopolizing key parts of the online advertising technology market, ruling that the company illegally tied together its dominant publisher ad server and ad exchange. That verdict set the stage for yet another remedies phase, one that could force Google to divest portions of its ad-tech empire. Unlike the search case, those remedies have not yet been handed down, leaving the future of Google's advertising business in limbo.

Oh, while all that was going on, OpenAI's ChatGPT emerged as a potential Google-killer application. Chat GPT-3.5, the first real consumer-facing product, was released in November 2022 and soon opened the floodgates to the AI hype cycle. Today, OpenAI's products have 800 million weekly active users.

And yet, despite this drumbeat of legal threats and unknown futures, the stock market has responded to Google's latest developments with breathtaking optimism.

Today, just two weeks after the September 2 remedies order in the search case, Alphabet's valuation surged past $3 trillion for the first time, making it only the fourth company in history to reach that milestone (after Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia).

The rally catapulted Larry and Sergey into a new club for the first time: The DOUBLE CENTIBILIONAIRE club.

As of Monday's closing, Page's net worth is roughly $220 billion, while Brin's topped $206 billion. Together, the two now control a staggering $426 billion in personal wealth. And while that's staggering, Larry & Sergey's combined net worth is still a bit shy of a single Elon.

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Two Googlers vs. One Elon

That combined total is eye-popping on its own, but it comes with an irresistible comparison: as of Monday's close, Larry Page plus Sergey Brin almost equal one Elon Musk.

On Monday, Musk announced he had used $1 billion in personal funds to buy additional shares of Tesla, nudging his ownership stake from 19.71% to 19.78%. The announcement also sparked a rally in Tesla stock, which jumped 3.62% on the day. Fun fact: Elon's $1 billion purchase increased Tesla's market cap by $40 billion, from $1.28 trillion to $1.32 trillion. In other words, he spent $1 billion and made $8 billion in a matter of hours. Not a bad gig if you can get it.

With Tesla trading at $410 per share, plus his other assets, Musk's net worth now sits at $430 billion.

So at this moment — and it could swing wildly tomorrow — the two men who started Google out of a Stanford dorm room collectively sit just a few billion shy of one South African-born entrepreneur who built Tesla, SpaceX, and X.

Wealth at the Top

With these latest gains, here are the top 6 richest people in the world:

1. Elon Musk – $430 billion
2. Larry Ellison – $361 billion
3. Mark Zuckerberg – $266 billion
4. Jeff Bezos – $252 billion
5. Larry Page – $220 billion
6. Sergey Brin – $206 billion